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Art Blakey is joined here (at least on the A-side) by Cuban drummers Candido and Sabu, with Ray Bryant, Oscar Pettiford, and Charles Wright. On the B side, Jackie McLean, Spanky DeBrest, Sam Dockery, and Bill Hardman join as the Jazz Messengers.

My copy—via private sale—is a 1950s Columbia Hollywood plant pressing with the 6-eye label. The artist is credited as “The Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble” on both labels but the cover credits the B side to the Jazz Messengers.

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50+ Music @[email protected]

2026-03-23

Along Came Betty 🔜
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYt-X_D6Cm4

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100D @[email protected]

2026-02-01

#ArtBlakey

Le jazz, je veux dire, la musique bougera toujours, parce qu’elle ne peut pas devenir stagnante. Parce que si elle stagne, c’est comme une rivière : elle nous tuera tous. Elle doit continuer à couler, la musique coulera toujours.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LsmpcAwWSY

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2026-01-28

Along Came Betty 🔛
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbxnJ494CZI

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Dave Nanian @[email protected]

2025-08-04

Art Blakey and the Jazzmessengers [sic] - Blue Night

It’s amazing to think about the number of players who graduated from the Jazz Messengers at this point, 35 years into Blakey-led group.

Here, he’s joined by a young Terrence Blanchard (trumpet), Donald Harrison (alto), Jean Toussaint (tenor), Mulgrew Miller (piano), and Jonnie Plaxico (bass), playing some originals and standards.

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2025-04-20

Jazz 625 – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

This just appeared on Youtube a couple of days ago and I couldn’t resist sharing it here. It is from a BBC programme in the series Jazz 625 and is presented by a chap called Humphrey Lyttelton, himself a trumpeter and bandleader. Although Humph is best known as a musician on the traditional side of jazz, he was very broadminded about music and extremely knowledgeable about more modern forms, as he demonstrated on his long-running radio show The Best of Jazz, which I listened to avidly as a teenager and which introduced open my eyes and ears to lots of new things including “hard bop“, which is the genre to which this belongs.

This programme was broadcast in 1965, at which time the BBC Television programmes were all in black-and-white so the recording has been “colourized”, and think the sound has been remastered too. It sounds great.

Anyway, the band featured here is Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. I was lucky enough to hear a couple of later incarnations of this group play live in the 1980s. There’s no need to run through the personnel or tunes because Humph does so in the recording. I will just add that the intro and outro are Thelonious Monk’s 52nd Street Theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3HOtonW2gY

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2025-01-28

moanin’ / art blakey and the jazz messengers. 1959

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers. Original 1959 US MONO (Blue Note BLP 4003)
Original Jazz Vinyl

Lee Morgan, trumpet
Benny Golson, tenor sax
Bobby Timmons, piano
Jymie Merritt, bass
Art Blakey, drums

Producer : Alfred Lion
Recorded By Rudy Van Gelder
Recorded on October 30, 1958.

00:00 Moanin’
09:41 Are You Real
14:32 Along Came Betty
20:46 The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite – First Theme: Drum Thunder
25:05 The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite – Second Theme: Cry A Blue Tear
26:15 The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite – Third Theme: Harlem’s Disciples
28:27 Blues March
34:46 Come Rain Or Come Shine
40:39 Album Photos

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Dave Nanian @[email protected]

2024-04-03

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Caravan

It's hard to think of this 1963 recording as one well into Blakey's career, but it was. And he's leading a bunch of great sidemen - Shorter, Hubbard, Fuller, absolutely nailing these hard bop tracks… I mean, what's not to like?

Especially this new OJC remaster by Kevin Gray - sounds great.

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