Art Blakey The Jazz Messengers Moanin (Blue Vinyl Series)

Description

More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958’s Moanin’ — featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt —was the perfect crystallization of the band’s bluesy, soulful sound, and it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of self-titled, the album was later renamed Moanin’ due to the popularity of Timmons’ unforgettable opening track. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook including “Along Came Betty” and “Blues March.”

Tracklist

Moanin’
Are You Real
Along Came Betty
The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite
First Theme: Drum Thunder
Second Theme: Cry A Blue Tear
Third Theme: Harlem’s Disciples
Blues March
Come Rain Or Come Shine