The Jazz Messengers [Columbia]

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All Music Guide - Michael G. Nastos
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 ...
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Editorial Reviews

All Music Guide - Michael G. Nastos
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 CD 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.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 2/1/2008
  • Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
  • UPC: 886972418124
  • Catalog Number: 724181
  • Sales rank: 12,826

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Infra-Rae (6:57)
  2. 2 Nica's Dream (11:51)
  3. 3 It's You Or No One (5:36)
  4. 4 Ecaroh (6:02)
  5. 5 Carol's Interlude (5:36)
  6. 6 The End of a Love Affair (6:43)
  7. 7 Hank's Symphony (4:37)
  8. 8 Weird-O (7:06)
  9. 9 Ill Wind (2:52)
  10. 10 Late Show (7:09)
  11. 11 Deciphering The Message (6:29)
  12. 12 Carol's Interlude (6:13)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers Primary Artist, Track Performer
Art Blakey Indexed Contributor, Drums
Curtis Fuller Trombone
Hank Mobley Tenor Saxophone
Lee Morgan Trumpet
Wayne Shorter Tenor Saxophone
Horace Silver Piano
Bobby Timmons Piano
Doug Watkins Bass
Jymie Merritt Acoustic Bass
Donald Byrd Trumpet
Technical Credits
Hank Mobley Composer
Steven Berkowitz Reissue
Kenny Washington Liner Notes
George Avakian Producer, Liner Notes
Michael Cuscuna Producer, Reissue Producer
Kevin Gore Reissue
Bob Thiele Producer
Seth Rothstein Director
Howard Fritzson Art Direction
Debra Parkinson Mastering
Randall Martin Reissue Design
Edward Redding Composer
Tony Janick Engineer
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Good stuff

    Just a great album. its fierce

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