Art Blakey..Jazz Messengers..The Big Beat..Blue Note LP
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This is Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers...The Big Beat...Blue Note Records 4029 LP 1960
With New York address on label...! This is the big one, original first pressing....Rockin' Records book $600
In the '60s, when John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman were defining the concept of a jazz avant-garde, few knowledgeable observers would have guessed that in another 30 years the music's mainstream would virtually bypass their innovations, in favor of the hard bop style that free jazz had apparently supplanted. As it turned out, many listeners who had come to love jazz as a sophisticated manifestation of popular music were unable to accept the extreme esotericism of the avant-garde; their tastes were rooted in the core elements of "swing" and "blues," characteristics found in abundance in the music of the Jazz Messengers, the quintessential hard bop ensemble led by drummer Art Blakey. In the '60s, '70s, and '80s, when artists on the cutting edge were attempting to transform the music, Blakey continued to play in more or less the same bag he had since the '40s, when his cohorts included the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Fats Navarro. By the '80s, the evolving mainstream consensus had reached a point of overwhelming approval in regard to hard bop: this is what jazz is, and Art Blakey — as its longest-lived and most eloquent exponent — was its master.
Cover: VG+ with light wear
Vinyl: VG to VG+ with some fine harlines and a few light surface scratches...some new gloss...plays and sounds great...
Tracks include: The Chess Players, Sakeena's Vision, Poliely, Dat Dere, Lester Left Town, It's Only A Paper Moon....
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