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- SKU: EN4CD9062
- Format: CD
- UPC: 823564666723
- Street Date: 12/11/15
- PreBook Date: 11/06/15
- Label: Enlightenment »
- Genre: Jazz
- Run Time: 316 mins
- Number of Discs: 4
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2015
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: US CA
- Language: English
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Art Blakey - Complete Blue Note Collection: 1960-1962
Art Blakey's Early 1960s Recordings - Among His Finest Ever
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By the beginning of the 1960s, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers had truly established themselves as a formidable recording and performing unit. The quintet recorded a string of highly acclaimed albums on Blue Note over a two year period, including The Big Beat, The Freedom Rider and The Witch Doctor. Furthermore, in 1960 they once again returned to their regular haunt Birdland in New York City to record the live album Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World. The group would expand to a sextet with the addition of Curtis Fuller in 1961, and towards the end of the summer that year both Lee Morgan and Bobby Timmons left the band to be replaced by Freddie Hubbard and Cedar Walton respectively. It is this line up that can be heard on the 1961 album Mosaic. Blakey's African influences were still very much to the fore in his solo work too, with his 1962 album The African Beat featuring heavy use of percussion and vocals from Nigerian drummer Solomon Ilori. Art Blakey would continue to record and perform almost without respite for the rest of his life, both with a constantly changing line up of Jazz Messengers and without. Following a difficult era in the 1970s during the rise of jazz fusion, a genre Blakey himself had little time for, the group saw a major resurgence with the advent of neo-classicalist jazz in the early 1980s. Blakey was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame in 1982. Art Blakey released his final album, One for All, and made his final appearances in July of the same year. He passed away on October 16th from lung cancer, aged 71, posthumously being accepted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001 and receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. Art Blakey remains one of the most enduring legacies in all of jazz. When the genre was in danger of dying out, there was still a scene, and it was Blakey who - almost instrumentally - kept it going.
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