Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' Art Blakey!!!!! The Jazz Messengers!!!!! Newly Remastered from Original Analog Sources and Pressed on 180g Vinyl LP at Third Man Pressing in Detroit as Part of the Verve By Request Series.
From the first bars of the immediately recognizable “Alamode,” this album is an explosion of beauty. This first sextet iteration of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers includes a young Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Bobby Timmons (piano) and Jymie Merritt (bass). The band ferociously pushes the pace with each track, leaving no prisoners in their wake. Verve By Request Series features transfers from the analog tapes remastered on 180g vinyl pressed at Third Man in Detroit.
Side A:
- Alamode
- Invitation
- Circus
Side B:
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- I Hear A Rhapsody
- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You