Throughout his long career, Art Blakey built a tremendous reputation for aggressive bands that featured the most gifted young musicians. Few of his later bands, however, could stand comparison with this 1960 edition of the hard-bop juggernaut. Its members combined strong writing skills with distinctive solo voices, including the creative seeking of tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter; the edgy, sometimes blistering, trumpet of Lee Morgan; and the soul-drenched piano of Bobby Timmons. Blakey's drumming contributes an explosive drive to this CD's version of Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia," a coiling snake of bop exoticism, while "So Tired" is a Timmons essay in deep funk, like his better-known "Moanin'" and "Dat Dere" an elemental tune with subtle underpinnings. --Stuart Broomer
A Night in Tunisia,Art Blakey,Mobile Fidelity,Gold Discs,Hard Bop,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop
Jazz Music:
- Alive [Live]
- All Bird's Children
- Art of the Duo: Gunther Klatt & Aki Takase Play Ballads of Duke Ellington
- At Last
- At the Village Vanguard [Live]
- Bags Meets Wes!
- Basse Contre Basse
- Best [Limited Edition] [Import]
- Big Band Boogie
- Black and Blue
Jazz Music
Recorded Live [Live] [Original recording remastered]
Rarities: Live Operatic Performances, 1934-40
Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1 & 2
Sing Sing and I [Enhanced] [Import]
Romantic Violin / Itzhak Perlman · Pinchas Zukerman · Erick Friedman · Anne Akiko Meyers
Sus Exitos Con Duval,Heredia, Saavedra [Import]