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- SKU: 77020LP
- Format: LP
- UPC: 8436569194904
- Street Date: 09/03/21
- PreBook Date: 07/30/21
- Label: Groove Replica »
- Genre: Jazz
- Run Time: 40 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2020
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 0
- Territory: US
- Language: English
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Art Blakey & The Jazzmessengers - Moanin
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The formation heard here marks the third incarnation of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, which included trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt. In 1954, the band came upon its first stable formation, which consisted of Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver and Doug Watkins. Blakey's second stable band began in 1957, and included Bill Hardman, Johnny Griffin (or Jackie McLean), Sam Dockery and Spanky Debrest. Lee Morgan was only 20-years old at the time the Jazz Messengers recorded Moanin'. His recording debut with Blakey had occurred the previous year at a session which featured an expanded version of the Jazz Messengers (called "the Jazz Messengers plus four") on April 2, 1957. On April 6, the drummer hired him again for a septet session including John Coltrane. Morgan and Blakey would record together twice in early 1958 as sidemen for sessions conducted by organist Jimmy Smith (February 28) and tenor sax player Tina Brooks (March 16) prior to this. Moanin' was the first authentic session of the third Jazz Messengers. It took place in Rudy Van Gelder's Studio, in Hackensack, New Jersey, on October 30, 1958. It was to be the beginning of a long and stable musical relationship that would last until 1965, seven years before Morgan was shot dead (at 33-years old) by his common-law wife during an argument.
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