Moanin' (2021)

This CD and 180-gram red virgin vinyl LP reissue of the 1958 Bluenote album Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers includes 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.

A 20-page booklet contains complete information with specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz’s writer Brian Morton and by France’s prestigious Jazz Magazine.

Released: January 2021
Cat: 350206
Label: 20th Century Masterworks

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Tracklist

CD (+ 4 bonus tracks)
1. Moanin’
2. Are You Real?
3. Along Came Betty
4. The Drum Thunder Suite
5. Blues March
6. Come Rain Or Come Shine
7. I Remember Clifford [Live] (bonus track)
8. Are You Real? [Live] (bonus track)
9. Moanin’ [Live] (bonus track)
10. Whisper Not [Live] (bonus track)

LP (+2 bonus tracks)
1. Moanin’
2. Are You Real?
3. Along Came Betty
4. I Remember Clifford - Live (bonus track)
5. The Drum Thunder Suite
6. Blues March
7. Come Rain Or Come Shine
8. Blues March - Live (bonus track)