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Even more amazing is that the three parts of the suite -- Blakey's \"The Sacrifice,\" Ray Bryant's \"Cubano Chant,\" and Oscar Pettiford's \"Oscalypso\" -- were recorded straight through live, and were only intended to be a pre-take run-through. As is obvious here, Blakey and company nailed the whole thing right out of the box.  Groundbreaking for its time, and still sounding vital, powerful, and visionary, the Drum Suite album is somewhat of a lost masterpiece that deserves a fresh audience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Impex","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50383674769739,"sku":"2050016","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/product_id._17ea8470_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726275777"},{"product_id":"feel-the-wind","title":"Feel The Wind","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to \u003ci\u003eFeel The Wind\u003c\/i\u003e..maybe one of the greatest team-ups in Jazz history featuring jazz\nsuperstars Art Blakey and Freddie Hubbard!\nOn \nthis album you\t\t\t\t\t\tfind six sublime\ntracks recorded in 1988 in Holland.\nThese recordings were originally released on the legendary Dutch jazz label Timeless Records (and\nproduced by its owner Wim Wigt). Supporting Hubbard and Blakey is an all-star line-up of musicians\nfrom the likes of Leon Dorsey (Lionel Hampton), Lonnie Plaxico (Dizzy Gillespie, Ravi Coltrane),\nBenny Green (Joe Henderson, Houston Person, Milt Jackson), Mulgrew Miller (Frank Morgan, Donald\nByrd) and Javon Jackson (Cedar Walton, Curtis Fuller, John Hicks).\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tidal Waves Music","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50384059892043,"sku":"2023930","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8PRQOLWk_3a48022f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726285064"},{"product_id":"essential-works-1954-1960","title":"Essential Works 1954-1960","description":"\u003cp\u003eArt Blakey was an exceptional musician, but not only because he succeeded in recruiting the best players to join his Messengers. He also had the skill to blaze new trails through forms of jazz that continuously evolved. Beginning in the Forties with the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine, he went on to play with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie… And then Blakey met up with Horace Silver in the mid-Fifties to found the Jazz Messengers. It was with this band that Blakey would open his arms to all the best young musicians of this generation: he nurtured the likes of Hank Mobley, Jackie McLean, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and many others. The first two sides of this album give an all too brief illustration of this aspect of the drummer, while sides three and four feature the inventiveness and rhythmical sense of a great percussionist who never renounced his African origins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Masters of Jazz","offers":[{"title":"LP | x2","offer_id":50389822177611,"sku":"2002583","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1f080292-9331-95b8-56d7-c2bcbd9c7654_2e6898fb_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726373916"},{"product_id":"orgy-in-rhythm","title":"Orgy In Rhythm","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Billy Eckstine’s band dissolved in the mid-1940s, adventurous drummer Art Blakey spent two years in Africa, where he briefly converted to Islam; back in New York, he gigged with Miles and Monk, before fronting his own Jazz Messengers. 1957’s \u003ci\u003eOrgy In Rhythm\u003c\/i\u003e drew on the sounds of North Africa and the Middle East, Blakey’s unfettered drumming accompanied by Latin percussionists such as Potato Valdez and Evilio Quintero, with Herbie Mann on flute. The musical arrangement is stunning, at times melodic or primordially rhythmic, but never short of pure brilliance. 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Led by Blakey's dynamic drumming, the album features a stellar lineup including Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, and Jymie Merritt. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reel","offers":[{"title":"Silver LPx2","offer_id":50437690196299,"sku":"2209068","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/A_Day_with_Art_Blakey_feat._Art_Blakey_Bobby_Timmons_af_d5ffdb73_thumbnail.webp?v=1726933827"},{"product_id":"moanin-4-bonus-tracks","title":"Moanin' + 4 Bonus Tracks","description":"\u003cp\u003eReissue of the 1958 Bluenote album ‘Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ includes bonus tracks recorded live at the Olympia, Paris with the same personnel, also in 1958. Together with Art Blakey on drums the line-up includes Lee Morgan on trumpet, Benny Golson on tenor saxophone, Bobby Timmons on piano and Jymie Merri on bass . The 20-page booklet contains complete information with specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz’s writer Brian Morton and by France’s prestigious Jazz Magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD: +4 Bonus Tracks\u003cbr\u003eMoanin’ \/ Are You Real? \/ Along Came Betty \/ The Drum Thunder Suite \/ Blues March \/ Come Rain Or Come Shine \/ I Remember Clifford [Live] (bonus track) \/ Are You Real? 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Perhaps the most acclaimed combo of Blakey's next to the latter-period bands with Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter, the pre-Messengers quintet heard on this first volume of live club dates at Birdland in New York City provides solid evidence to the assertion that this ensemble was a one of a kind group the likes of which was not heard until the mid-'60s Miles Davis Quintet. Three of Silver's greatest contributions to jazz before he turned to original soul and funkier sounds are here. \"Split Kick\" (introduced by the erudite Pee Wee Marquette) is a definitive hard bop vehicle, as Brown and Donaldson dig into their melody and solo lines with deep affection and joy for this music. \"Quicksilver\" is more of the same as the horns play in unison and pull the famous lyrical quote from \"Hey, You Beautiful Doll.\" \"Mayreh\" is a happy reharmonized version of \"All God's Children Got Rhythm,\" hard bop at its best, with Brown on fire. Of course, Donaldson's forte is soul, as emphasized during the slow \"Blues,\" assimilating Charlie Parker's cooled tones nicely. A near ten-minute \"A Night in Tunisia\" establishes the loose-tight concept Blakey patented as he dominates the bandstand in loudness. J.J. Johnson's \"Wee-Dot\" is as definitive a bop flagwaver as there is, with a short head and plenty of solo space. Where Brown was always masterful in a ballad, \"Once in a While\" showcases his beautifully executed legato sound, but not at the expense of his innate ability to both invent and extrapolate without losing touch of this special melancholy song. This recording, as well as subsequent editions of these performances, launches an initial breakthrough for Blakey and modern jazz in general, and defines the way jazz music could be heard for decades thereafter. 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Walton wrote the burning title track; its blazing tempo and Eastern modes were uncharacteristic of the Jazz Messengers sound, but it swings like mad. Hubbard contributed two pieces to the album, the first of which is the groover \"Down Under,\" with its blues gospel feel. The bandmembers dig their teeth into this one, carrying the blues theme to the breaking point as Hubbard fills in between. But the horn charts are so sharp, so utterly devoid of excess, that they won't let the listener go. Shorter's \"Children of the Night\" is a fine example of the tunes he would compose for the Miles Davis Quintet a bit later. While it's a hard bop swinger to be sure, his use of modality and counterpoint between the soloist and the front line is exemplary and his solo bites hard and fast as he tears up and down the registers of the horn. Fuller's \"Arabia\" is a basic blues groover, and the playing is inspired throughout. The disc closes with Hubbard's \"Crisis,\" which opens with Merritt and Blakey ushering in the rest of the band. Walton first plays a repetitive minor-key riff. When the horns enter, Walton keeps the theme, Merritt moves over a bit to dig in between the lines, and Blakey keeps it all anchored because in this tune rhythm is everything. Hubbard was in many ways a soul-jazz composer before there was such a thing, and the motifs in this tune prove it — as does his beautiful blowing in his solo. This is a fine recording and should be owned by any Blakey fan. The Rudy Van Gelder reissue came out in 2006 and features no bonus material. 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