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Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Roots and Herbs

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Roots & Herbs

Hard Bop, Blues and Soul – all here, in this Lee Morgan Edition of the Messengers that consistently set top-tier records to tape for Blue Note.      The title tune is enchanting. One imagines one sitting with a skilled medicine man in Kahondo ka Byamarembo, in ...
Free for All The best Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers record

Free for All: The best Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers record?

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Free for All  Blue Note – BST 84170   Is this the best Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers? That’s a hard question, of course. However, to my ears, the answer is yes. Well, until I listen to other Blakey and TJM recordings by ...
Music for Intore and other African dances Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ A Night in Tunisia

Music for Intore and other African dances: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ A Night in Tunisia

Jazz music, rooted in the African slave experience and its aftermath in America, is music that has maintained the link with the African American’s ancestral homeland. No instrument exemplifies this better than drums and, to my ears, Art Blakey was one of the greatest purveyors ...
Tenor Madness My kind of musical therapy in a troubled world

Tenor Madness: My kind of musical therapy in a troubled world

The love of great Jazz music reflects a healthy madness that is very healing in a troubled world. This Saturday evening finds me receiving the ministrations of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane on tenor, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums.   This ...
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers  First Flight to TokyoThe Lost 1961 Recordings

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers / First Flight to Tokyo:The Lost 1961 Recordings

The contents of the recently discovered tapes of this January 14, 1961 concert in Tokyo Japan are now on two vinyl LPs. Released on Friday December 10, 2021, the double LP package is as one would expect.   It is Art Blakey (drums) with Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter tenor ...
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