Moanin'

Art Blakey

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Release Date: 19 June 2012

Label: Waxtime

Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

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Barcode: 8436542011112

Genres: Jazz Bebop

Release Date: 19 February 2021

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Release Date: 30 August 2016

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Barcode: 8437012830721

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Release Date: 09 May 2025

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Genres: Jazz Bebop

Description
This 180 gram red virgin vinyl LP reissue of the 1958 Bluenote album ‘Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers’ includes two bonus tracks recorded live at the Olympia, Paris with the same personnel, also in 1958. Together with Art Blakey on drums the line-up includes Lee Morgan on trumpet, Benny Golson on tenor saxophone, Bobby Timmons on piano and Jymie Merritt on bass . The specially prepared liner notes are by Penguin Guide to Jazz’s writer Brian Morton and by France’s prestigious Jazz Magazine.

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"Moanin'" was Art Blakey's first album for Blue Note in several years, after a period of recording for a miscellany of labels, and marked both a homecoming and a fresh start. The first choice had been to have the LP self-titled, but the instant popularity of Bobby Timmons' "Moanin'", which was the album's first track, led to it being given that title.

"The session racks up a self-challenging achievement", wrote Leonard Feather, "by starting right out with a climax, for it would be difficult to improve on the groove established by Bobby Timmons' composition 'Moanin''." Michael G. Nastos gave the album a five-star rating in All Music Guide, stating that "Moanin' includes some of the greatest music Blakey produced in the studio with arguably his very best band. There are three tracks that are immortal and will always stand the test of time. The title selection is a pure tuneful melody stewed in a bluesy shuffle penned by pianist Bobby Timmons, while tenor saxophonist Benny Golson's classy, slowed 'AlongCame Betty' and the static, militaristic 'Blues March' will always have a home in the repertoire of every student or professional jazz band.

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The complete album + 2 bonus tracks - pressed on limited edition 180g vinyl. 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.
Benny Golson penned four of the songs from Moanin' and added several perennial compositions to the group's repertoire, among them the two bonus tracks on this edition, 'Whisper Not' and 'I Remember Clifford', the latter in memory of trumpeter Clifford Brown. Pianist Bobby Timmons contributed such hits of his own as the title track, 'Moanin'.
"Moanin' includes some of the greatest music Blakey produced in the studio with arguably his very best band. Certainly a complete and wholly satisfying album, Moanin' ranks with the very best of Blakey and what modern jazz offered in the late '50s and beyond." - Michael G. Nastos, AllMusic
Tracklisting
1. Moanin'
2. Are You Real?
3. Along Came Betty
4. I Remember Clifford - Live (Bonus Track)
2.1. The Drum Thunder Suite
2.2. Blues March
2.3. Come Rain Or Come Shine
2.4. Blues March - Live (Bonus Track)
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