Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Moanin’

Format: 1LP
Catalogue No.: 746568
Barcode: 060250 7465681
Release Date: 9th April 2021
Genre: Jazz

ALL-ANALOG 180g VINYL PRESSINGS OF CLASSIC TITLES MASTERED FROM ORIGINAL TAPES BY KEVIN GRAY AND PRESSED AT OPTIMAL

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 all-time.

Originally 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.”

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Tracklist
Moanin’ (Side A)
Are You Real (Side A)
Along Came Betty (Side A)
The Drum Thunder Suite (Side B)
Blues March (Side B)
Come Rain Or Come Shine (Side B)

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