Art Blakey, Jazz Messenger - Alan Bird
Intro Tracks
Art Blakey - “Blues March” - October 1958 From the LP “Moanin”’
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – “Round Midnight” - October 1980
Part of the “Live at Bubba’s” session, also later released in Wynton Marsalis name.
Track List
1. Thelonious Monk -
“In Walked Bud” – November 1947
From
the Blue Note LP “Genius of Modern Music Vol 1”.Thelonious Monk (Piano), George
Taitt (Trumpet), Sahib Shihab (Alto Sax), Robert Paige (Bass), Art Blakey
(Drums)
2. Art Blakey’s Messengers - “Bop Alley” - December 1947
From
the Blue Note LP/CD Art Blakey and James Moody “New Sounds”
Sahib
Shihab (Alto Sax), Musa Kaleem (Tenor Sax), Ernie Thompson (Baritone Sax), Kenny
Dorham (Trumpet), Howard Bowe (Trombone), Walter Bishop (Piano), Laverne Barker
(Bass), Art Blakey (Drums)
3. Miles Davis -
“Conception” – October 1951
From
the Prestige compilation LP/CD “Conception”. Miles Davis (Trumpet), Sonny
Rollins (Tenor Sax), Walter Bishop (Piano), Tommy Potter (Bass), Art Blakey
(Drums)
4. Art Blakey Quintet
– “Quicksilver” – February 1954
From
the Blue Note Live LP “A Night at Birdland”.Art Blakey (Drums), Clifford Brown
(Trumpet), Lou Donaldson (Alto Sax), Horace Silver (Piano), Curly Russell
(Bass)
5. Herbie Nichols - “The Third World” - May 1955
From
the Blue Note LP “The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Volume 1” Just reissued on a 12”
Blue Note LP with Volume 2 and the original art work.
Herbie
Nichols (Piano), Al McKibbon (Bass), Art Blakey (Drums)
6. Art Blakey –
“Ain’t Life Grand” – December 1957
From
the LP “Art Blakey’s Big Band” reissued on an Avid double CD
15
piece band with 4 trumpets (incl. Donald Byrd), 3 trombones (incl. Melba
Liston), 2 Alto Sax, 2 Tenor Sax (John Coltrane, Al Cohn) plus Baritone sax,
Piano and Bass
7. Art Blakey -
“Moanin’” - October 1958
From
the Blue Note LP/CD “Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers” also known as
“Moanin’” BLP 4003/BST 84003.
(Lee
Morgan (Trumpet), Benny Golson (Tenor Sax), Bobby Timmons (Piano), Jymie
Merritt (Bass), Art Blakey (Drums)
8. Art Blakey and the
Jazz Messengers – “Generique” – from the soundtrack of the film “Des Femmes
Disparaissent” (“Girls Vanish”) – December 1958
Film
Soundtrack on Fontana/Phillips LP. Art Blakey (Drums), Lee Morgan (Trumpet),
Benny Golson (Tenor Sax), Bobby Timmons (Piano), Jimmy Merritt (Bass)
9. Art Blakey and
his Jazz Messengers – “Alamode” – 1961
From
the UK EMI/WRC LP “Art Blakey and his Jazz Messangers”
Art
Blakey (Drums), Lee Morgan (Trumpet), Curtis Fuller (Trombone), Wayne Shorter
(Tenor Sax), Robert Timmons (Piano), Jymie Merritt (Drums)
10. Art Blakey’s Jazz
Messengers – “Blue Moon” - 1962
From
the United Artists LP “Three Blind Mice”
Art
Blakey (Drums), Freddie Hubbard (Trumpet), Curtis Fuller (Trombone), Wayne
Shorter (Tenor Sax and arranger), Cedar Walton (Piano), Jimmy Merritt (Bass)
11. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – “AngelEyes” – October 1980
Part
of the “Live at Bubba’s” session, later released in Wynton Marsalis name.
Art
Blakey (Drums), Wynton Marsalis (Trumpet), Bobby Watson (Alto Sax), Billy
Pierce (Sax), Jimmy Williams (Piano), Charles Fambrough (Bass)
Art
Blakey (Drums), (Wynton Marsalis( Trumpet), Bobby Watson (Alto Sax), Billy
Pierce (Sax), Jimmy Williams (Piano), Charles Fambrough (Bass)
12. Art Blakey Live at Keystone - “ETA” - June 1981
From “Live at Bubba's”
Wynton
Marsalis (Trumpet), Bobby Watson (Alto Sax), Bill Pierce (Tenor Sax), James
Williams (Piano), Charles Fambrough (Bass), Art Blakey (Drums)
13. Art Blakey Live at Keystone – “In Walked Bud” -
January 1982
From
the Concord LP/CD “Keystone 3” CCD 4196
Wynton
Marsalis (Trumpet), Branford Marsalis (Alto Sax), Bill Pierce (Tenor Sax),
Donald Brown (Piano), Charles Fambrough (Bass), Art Blakey (Drums)
