Art Blakey

Artist:  Art Blakey
Birth Name:  Arthur Blakey
Born:  October 11, 1919.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died:  October 16, 1990 (Aged 71).  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop
Occupation:  Musician, Bandleader
Instruments:  Drums, Percussion

Art Blakey was an American Jazz Drummer and Bandleader.  He made a name for himself in the 1940s in the Big Bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine.  He worked with Bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.  In the mid-1950s Horace Silver and Art Blakey formed The Jazz Messengers.  He was inducted into the Down Beat jazz Hall Of Fame in 1981.  The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall Of Fame in 1991.

Title:  Moanin'  (1999)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop
Label:  Blue Note Records
Rating:  *****

Tracks:

 1.  Moanin'  (9:30)
 2.  Moanin' (Alternate Take)  (9:19)
 3.  Are You Real  (4:45)
 4.  Along Came Betty  (6:09)
 5.  The Drum Thunder Suite  (7:15)
 6.  Blues March  (6:53)
 7.  Come Rain Or Come Shine  (5:45)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums
Lee Morgan:  Trumpet
Benny Golson:  Tenor Saxophone
Bobby Timmons:  Piano
Jymie Merritt:  Bass

Moanin' is one of the Great Classic of Hard Bop of Art Blakey, was released on March 23, 1999 by Blue Note Records, featuring Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Benny Golson and Jymie Merritt.