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, Jazz Instrument
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' (Limited Edition + 2 Bonus Tracks) (2020)
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument
Label: 20th Century Masterworks
Rating: *****
Format: LP
Tracks:
Side A:
1. Moanin' (9:34)
2. Are You Real (4:50)
3. Along Came Betty (6:11)
Bonus Track:
4. I Remember Clifford (Live) (5:43)
Side B:
1. The Drum Thunder Suite (First Theme: Drum Thunder/Second Theme: Cry A Blue Tear/Third Theme: Harlem's Disciples) (7:35)
2. Blues March (6:17)
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine (5:47)
Bonus Track:
4. Blues March (Live) (6:01)
Personnel:
Art Blakley: Drums
Lee Morgan: Trumpet
Benny Golson: Tenor Saxophone
Bobby Timmons: Piano
Jymie Merritt: Bass
Moanin' is a 1959 studio album by Art Blakley And The Jazz Messengers, originally released on January 1, 1959, by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued in 2020 by 20th Century Masterworks. Limited Edition with 2 Bonus Tracks, 180 Gram Colored Virgin Vinyl.
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