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Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Roots & Herbs

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

#Roots #Herbs #Art #Blakey #Jazz #Messengers #Lee #Morgan #Wayne #Shorter #Bobby #Timmons #Walter #Davis #Jr #Jamie #Merritt #Blue #Note #Mastermind #Birdie

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 ...

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

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicOctober 16, 20220 comments

#Kozos #waltz #Night #in #Tunisia #Art #Blakey #Intore #Lee #Morgan #Jamie #Merritt #Wayne #Shorter #Bobby #Timmons #Jazz

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 ...

The Big Beat: Art Blakey and the jazz messengers

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

#Art #Blakey #Jazz #Messengers #Lee #Morgan #Wayne #Shorter #Jymie #Merritt #Bobby #Timmons

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

#Art #Blakey #Jazz #Messengers #Lee #Morgan #Wayne #Shorter #Bobby #Timmins #Jymie #Merritt

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 ...

Edward Lee Morgan (1938-1972): lee-way

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicMay 12, 20200 comments

#Lee #Morgan #Jazz #Hard #Bop #trumpet

To my ears, Edward Lee Morgan was the best of the best trumpeters in the Hard Bop idiom.His very premature death, gunned down by his spouse while he was at work at Slug's Saloon, a club in New York City, ended a very brief but brilliant career of a young man that had enjoyed great ...