Legends Live: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
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Label: Arthaus
Cat No: 101701
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 27th February 2012
Contents
Artists
Art BlakeyJazz Messengers
Artists
Art BlakeyJazz Messengers
About
This is the band with which Blakey set neo bop on fire and gave a new lease of life to the triplet pulse of swing. Surrounded by musicians two generations younger than himself, the 55-year-old ignites a type of music that explodes with vitality and finds as much pleasure in grooving as it does in the intellect of swing.
Blakey’s young musicians bring spirit to the band, while the drummer inspires his co-musicians to express their emotions in quite extraordinary ways. Tenor saxophonist David Schnitter (Mishima), pianist James Williams (1997 A.D.) and alto saxophonist Bobby Watson (Hawk Man) all contribute compositions of their own, injecting contemporary dynamism into Blakey’s hard bop world alongside Messengers’ hits such as Moanin’.
“Don’t play yesterday’s trash, play today’s thoughts and emotions”, Blakey would say before going on stage with his Jazz Messengers. This much is certain: had it not been for the Messengers, Wynton Marsalis would still be playing classical études.
Artists:
Art Blakey (dr), Valery Ponomarev (tp), David Schnitter (ts), Bobby Watson (as), James Williams (p), Dennis Irwin (b)
Contents:
- Mishima
- Body & Soul
- 1997 A. D.
- Hawk Man
- I Remember Clifford
- Moanin’
Recorded live at Untertürkheim on July 15, 1978.
Original concert recording, carefully remastered.
Total Duration: 71:32
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