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Anthenagin (Walton) | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | Anthenagin (1973)
Tempus Fugit alternate take (Powell) | Miles Davis | Volume 2 (1953 on blue note)
Mind the saxophone solo for a quote… got it?
Remastered by Rudy Van Gelder
- Miles Davis trumpet
- J. J. Johnson trombone
- Jimmy Heath tenor sax
- Gil Coggins piano
- Percy Heath bass
- Art Blakey drums
Airegin (Rollins) | Grant Green | Nigeria (1962)
Listen with
- Grant Green guitar
- Sonny Clark piano
- Sam Jones bass
- Art Blakey drums
Cranky Spanky | Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers | Hard Bop (1957)
BAM!!
Columbia Studios, New York City
December 12, 1956
- Bill Hardman trumpet
- Jackie McLean alto sax
- Sam Dockery piano
- Jimmy Spanky DeBrest bass
- Art Blakey drums
Moanin’ (Timmons) | Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Belgium, 1958
- Art Blakey drums
- Lee Morgan trumpet
- Benny Golson tenor sax
- Bobby Timmons piano and composer
- Jymie Merritt bass
Hank Mobley - Just Coolin’ (1955)
Happy late birthday to one of the unsung heroes of the tenor saxophone.
More? (Listen to a blistering live version with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers at the Blue Note.)
Flat Duo Jets, a rockabilly two-piece that would greatly influence The White Stripes, play Crazy Hazy Kisses, their reworked version of Gene Vincent’s Baby Blue, live on the porch of the ΣΑΕ fraternity house in the University of Georgia.
From Tony Gayton’s documentary Athens, Ga. - Inside/Out (1987) about the city’s music scene, which you may watch here, also featuring R.E.M. and The B-52s.
They also wrote a really cool Theme for Dick Fontaine, the director of Sound?? (1967) and Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger (1988). Find it below.
