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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: The Witch Doctor

Read "The Witch Doctor" reviewed by Jim Santella


With Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan in the front line, this was one of Art Blakey’s best Jazz Messenger units. Bobby Timmons, of course, could swing the section from start to finish. Shorter, Morgan, and Timmons were with the Jazz Messengers together through most of 1960 and 1961. The Witch Doctor was recorded March 14, 1961. ...

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Roots And Herbs

Read "Roots And Herbs" reviewed by Jim Santella


Recorded early in 1961, not released on LP until nine years later, and now available as a CD, Roots And Herbs carries on the tradition of hard bop and those unique features that set the genre apart from other forms of jazz. Art Blakey’s quintet recorded the compositions of Wayne Shorter at three sessions in February ...

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Africaine

Read "Africaine" reviewed by Ian Nicolson


Many fans with tuned-in ears rate Blakey and Blue Note as the ultimate in Jazz talent-spotting - and his Jazz Messengers were their Academy of Excellence. Lee Morgan, Cedar Walton, Wayne Shorter, Feddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Curtis Fuller, Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons all became Messengers, in front of one of the presiding geniuses of hard ...

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

Label: Ermitage
Released: 1958
Track listing: Moanin'; Are You Real; Along Came Betty; The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite; Blues March; Come Rain Or Come Shine;


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