Art Blakey - with the Original Jazz Messengers
Жанр: Jazz
Год выпуска: 1956
Лейбл: Columbia (PPAN CL897)
Страна-производитель: US
Аудио кодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: tracks+.cue
Формат записи: 24 bit / 96 khz
Формат раздачи: 24 bit / 96 khz
Продолжительность: 77:37
Треклист:
Side A:
Infra-Rae
Nica's Dream
It's You or No One
Side B:
Ecaroh
Carol's Interlude
The End of a Love Affair
Hank's Symphony
Side C:
Weird-O
Ill Wind
Late Show
Side D:
Deciphering the Message
Carol's Interlude
Источник оцифровки: aksman (найдено в сети)
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Доп.информация
Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers is a 1956 album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, released by Columbia Records. It was the last recording by the inaugural Jazz Messengers lineup featuring pianist Horace Silver.
The very first edition of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers was unfortunately short-lived, and as excellent as they were collectively, it was the beginning of a trend for the members of this group to come and go. Unbeknown to Blakey at the time, he would become a champion for bringing talent from the high minor leagues to full-blown jazz-star status, starting with this band featuring Detroit trumpeter Donald Byrd, East coast tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, and pianist Horace Silver, a jazz legend ever after. It's evident that although there is much cohesion in the group, Byrd's star was on the rise the fastest, and he would leave in a short period, replaced briefly by Clifford Brown, then Kenny Dorham. What is most remarkable in this first recording for the band is how several of these selections have become classic hard bop vehicles, revered and replayed by thousands of bands over time worldwide. "Nica's Dream" is the best known of them all, typical of the calypso beats Blakey favored at the time, with a singsong, hummable melody led by Byrd that is pure soul personified, and drenched in unrequited blues. Their take of "The End of a Love Affair" is one of those arrangements that would be hard to top, filled with deft rhythm changes and a distinctive group signature sound identified by the Mobley-Byrd tandem. "Ecaroh" ("Horace" spelled backwards) keeps the Latin beat but puts in a breezier context, a simple beauty of a tune only the pianist and Blakey could have conceived, and called their own at the time. "Infra Rae" is a quintessential hard bop workout, and "Hank's Symphony," while not a classic, is innovative in that it uses an Asian inspired introduction, an Afro-Cuban base, and a wild hurricane force via Blakey's fast, inspired, cut-loose drumming. This LP version is an expanded edition, including five extra cuts. There's a first and second take of the calypso shuffle-to-bop "Carol's Interlude," first versions of the original bopper "Weird-O," standards "Ill Wind" and "The Late Show," and the studio version of Mobley's "Deciphering the Message," sporting a scattered, tangential melody that was never previously available, but now is on this recording and the Blue Note CD At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. I. In retrospect, the Jazz Messengers could easily be tagged the eighth wonder of the world, starting with this finely crafted first effort that definitely stands the test of time.
Состав исполнителей
Personnel
Art Blakey, drums
Horace Silver, piano
Hank Mobley, tenor saxophone
Donald Byrd, trumpet
Doug Watkins, bass
Recorded at Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City on April 6 and May 4, 1956
Produced by George Avakian
Recording engineers: Tony Janick
