Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Moanin' CD

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Moanin'

3 PANNEL DIGIPACK EDITION
4 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE

INCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS

Moanin’ (Blue Note BST-4003) is widely regarded as one of the finest albums in the history of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. It was the first LP by the third formation of the group, featuring Lee Morgan, Benny Golson (composer of most of the songs), Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt. Lee Morgan (1938-1972) was only 20-years old at the time the Jazz Messengers recorded Moanin’. Benny Golson is one of the last living legends of that era (he is 89 years-old at this writing). He wrote four of the songs from Moanin’. Pianist Bobby Timmons stayed with Blakey from 1958 to 1961. He participated on some of the best Jazz Messengers recordings (including, of course, the present album), and contributed such hits of his own as the title track, Moanin’. Like Morgan, Timmons died young (due to cirrhosis of the liver in 1974, at age 38).

PERSONNEL:

ART BLAKEY, drums & leader
LEE MORGAN, trumpet
BENNY GOLSON, tenor sax
BOBBY TIMMONS, piano
JYMIE MERRITT, bass

Hackensack, New Jersey, October 30, 1958.

(*) BONUS TRACKS (7-10): Same personnel
Live at the Olympia, Paris, France, November 22 (tracks 7-8) & December 17 (tracks 9-10), 1958.

TRACKLIST:
01 MOANIN’
02 ARE YOU REAL?
03 ALONG CAME BETTY
04 THE DRUM THUNDER SUITE
05 BLUES MARCH
06 COME RAIN OR COME SHINE
07 I REMEMBER CLIFFORD [Live] (*)
08 ARE YOU REAL? [Live] (*)
09 MOANIN’ [Live] (*)
10 WHISPER NOT [Live] (*)

TOTAL TIME: 77:57 Min.

Label: Jazz Images
Released: 2018