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Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Roots & Herbs

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicOctober 20, 20220 comments

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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?

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicOctober 18, 20220 comments

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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 ...

The Big Beat: Art Blakey and the jazz messengers

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicOctober 15, 20220 comments

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This is indispensable jazz. How can a record sound so fresh after multiple listening sessions over four decades? I first "met" Art Blakey and this edition of his jazz messengers in 1978. Full credit to George Cook Jr. of Columbus, Ohio who introduced me to Jazz in Maseru Lesotho. ...

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

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicDecember 11, 20210 comments

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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 ...