ART BLAKEY 'Mosaic LP NEW RVG Curtis Fuller Merritt Walton Wayne Shorter Hubbard
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ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
'Mosaic'
Brand New LP (Reissue)!
Classic Jazz Record - Essential Listening!
You are bidding on a new, sealed condition, copy of the legendary "Mosaic" LP from greats - ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENTERS. This will instantly become one of your favorite records. Your turntable, your stylus and your ears will thank you!
"“Mosaic” finds the band in 1961 with the partnership between Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller and Wayne Shorter in full bloom. The album conveys a maturity and an elegance that sets it above the thrash jazz of “A Night In Tunisia” or ‘Free For All” and yet the music stays true to the spirit of hard bop – challenging, demanding, uplifting, pointing to the possibility of transformation. Beauty in the face of the corruption of the world. A hard beauty that is indestructible. In that sense this is music which is heir to the legacy of the blues.
The increased harmonic range that was obtained by expanding the band to a six-piece and including Curtis Fuller on trombone allows those long blowing melodies with trombone, trumpet and sax playing in unison and often in harmony defiantly to set out the stall for the fragile power of beauty. The underlying rhythm with drums, piano and bass mines out deep troughs of tension and potential betrayal. Solos from Freddie Hubbard, then Wayne Shorter, then Curtis Fuller suggest how the transforming power of the imagination might accomplish a change in the sombre reality, towards the triumph of beauty in the face of an uncertain future, perhaps towards new understanding. This kind of reasoning can go too far of course, but perhaps it is worth it if it offers a taste of the spirit of transformation that lights up this music. " - 100 Greatest Jazz Albums
- Mosaic
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