Blakey, Art & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' [LP] (180 Gram, Blue Note Classic) Glen

Blakey, Art & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' [LP] (180 Gram, Blue Note Classic) GlenLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 1958's Moanin' featuring the great drummer w trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, & bassist Jymie Merritt was the perfect crystallization of the band's bluesy, soulful sound, & it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all time. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook

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Porgy and Bess is a phenomenal jazz dance that has never been equaled - and likely

Dual drummers synced in each ear

Muddy's guitar playing on the Fender Telecaster comes into full effect with his slow blues solos - and seldom had Muddy such a hot sound

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he threw himself into pushing the sonic boundaries of the band and maturing their sound

Part Two is a 14 track vocal suite with features from the likes of Nas

The album's first single "D

while enlisting Ricky Reed

She must have bewildered many who came to see her in those winsome Peter

naked emotion

this is the first time the EP is available on vinyl as a 1xLP picture disc