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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Drum Suite (Impex Records)

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  • Mono 180g Vinyl LP!

    All-Analog Mastering by Kevin Gray!

    Pressed at RTI!

    One of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming, Art Blakey is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was and continues to be profoundly influential on mainstream jazz.

    For more than 30 years his band, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz. Recorded in 1956, Art Blakey's Drum Suite is a wonderful hybrid of African, Latin, and hard bop rhythms that prefigures the concept of Afro-beat by at least a decade. The sheer energy, not to mention its very special and fresh-sounding intimacy, make it especially astounding.

    Even more amazing is that the three parts of the suite — Blakey's "The Sacrifice," Ray Bryant's "Cubano Chant," and Oscar Pettiford's "Oscalypso" — were recorded straight through live, and were only intended to be a pre-take run-through. As is obvious here, Blakey and company nailed the whole thing right out of the box.

    Groundbreaking for its time, and still sounding vital, powerful, and visionary, the Drum Suite album is somewhat of a lost masterpiece that deserves a fresh audience.

  • Label: Impex Records
    Format: LP
    Units: 1
    Country: US
    Genre: Jazz
  • A1 The Sacrifice
    A2 Cubano Chant
    A3 Oscalypso
    B1 Nica'S Tempo
    B2 D'S Dilemma
    B3 Just For Marty