Description
Art Blakey Live in 65 boasts an exceptional one-hour concert from Paris in 1965. This performance showcases one of the few undocumented Blakey bands, the New Jazzmen, featuring Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Jaki Byard on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, Nathan Davis on sax, and, of course, Blakey on drums.Freddie Hubbards incendiary playing on Blue Moon and the blistering 24-minute version of his own Crisis shows that he was one of the most innovative trumpeters in jazz history.
On this live session, the audiences seem to have been enthusiastic and appreciative. Everywhere wed go people would say, This is the best Jazz Messengers weve heard!, according to Davis. And because of the way Jaki would play and Reggie would go, it was like a semi-freedom thing with Messengers heads, you know, but when we got to soloing! And Blakey was ridin and floatin the timebut he would always be loose enough to follow, to keep it going. Hes one helluva musician. (via Label)
Label: Sam Records, INA
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Remastered, Mono, 180 gram
Country: France
Repress: 2024 / Original Release: 2020
Genre: Jazz
Style: Hard Bop
File under: Jazz Groups
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