ART BLAKEY The Freedom Rider LP US Blue Note Liberty Stereo M-/M- BST64156
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Description
Artist: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Title: The Freedom Rider
Format: LP
Label: Blue Note / Liberty (USA)
Catalogue No: BST84156
Condition
Cover: M-
Disc: M-
Condition comments: Cover in shrink, one tiny corner ding, disc has a couple of light sleeve scuffs and a fingerprint in the dead wax.
Item Description / Notes:
Matrix
STEREO BST84156-A VAN GELDER
STEREO BST84156-B VAN GELDER
The Freedom Rider is an album by jazz drummer Art Blakey and his group the Jazz Messengers. Continuing Blakey's distinct brand of hard bop, this album features contributions from Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Blakey himself, and Kenny Dorham, a former Jazz Messenger. This was the final album by this particular edition of the Jazz Messengers, who had been together for 18 months, as Lee Morgan left after this album to be replaced by a young Freddie Hubbard. The compositions themselves are varied, with Blakey contributing an energetic drum solo on "The Freedom Rider"; at least three of the compositions on the album are blues pieces. "El Toro" features a solo by Shorter incorporating the sheets of sound technique pioneered by John Coltrane.
Track listing
"Tell It Like It Is" (Shorter) – 7:53
"The Freedom Rider" (Blakey) – 7:25
"El Toro" (Shorter) – 6:20
"Petty Larceny" (Morgan) – 6:14
"Blue Lace" (Morgan) – 5:59
"Uptight" (Morgan) – 6:12
"Pisces" (Morgan) – 6:52
"Blue Ching" (Dorham) – 6:43
Personnel
Art Blakey — drums
Wayne Shorter — tenor saxophone
Lee Morgan — trumpet
Bobby Timmons — piano
Jymie Merritt — double bass
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