The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers were an American jazz group formed in the mid-1950s by drummer Art Blakey and pianist Horace Silver. The band is closely tied to hard bop, and Blakey led it for more than thirty-five years, until his death in 1990. Over that time it worked as a school for young players, many of whom went on to lead groups of their own. Silver led the first Blue Note sessions under the name in 1954 and 1955, with Blakey, Hank Mobley, Kenny Dorham and Doug Watkins. Silver left in 1956 and Blakey kept the band, later billed as Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
Aliases: Art Blakey
Olympia Concert (LP)
Early 1970's US re-issue on Mercury of the 1959 French live album.
Straight Ahead (LP)
Original Japanese edition with different cover on Concord Jazz of the 1981 album. With insert and obi.
Gotham City (LP)
Original Japanese edition on CBS/Sony of the 1981 album featuring Art Blakey and George Benson. With insert and obi.
Francis Paudras Legacy / Cecilia Powell's Heritage series voll. 1 to 10 (10LP bundle)
All 10 volumes released in 1989 on Black Saint / Mythic Sound's "Francis Paudras Legacy / Cecilia Powell's Heritage" series dedicated to Powell's recordings from 1944 to 1964 featuring Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Lee Konitz, Jay Jay Johnson, Art Blake…
Julius Watkins Sextet (LP)
Original and sole vinyl edition on Blue Note's "10 Inch LP Collection" of the Japan-only compilation coupling two 1954 10"s featuring Art Blakey and Hank Mobley. With insert and obi.
One Night With Blue Note Volume 3 (LP)
Original Japanese edition on Blue Note of the 1985 live album. With insert.
Somethin' Else (LP)
Rare 1994 Japanese re-issue on Blue Note's "LP 1500 Collection" series of the 1958 album featuring Miles Davis and Art Blakey. With insert and obi.
Alison's Uncle / Autumn Leaves (12"EP)
1983 Japan-only EP on Blue Note with recordings from 1958 featuring Miles Davis and Art Blakey. With insert and obi.
A Night At Birdland Volume 1 (LP)
1976 Japanese re-issue in Blue Note's "Jazz Right Now" series of the 1956 album. With insert.
Au Club Saint-Germain Vol. 2 (LP)
1976 Japanese re-issue in RCA's "RCA不滅のジャズ1800" series of the 1959 album. With insert and obi.
3 Blind Mice (LP)
1976 Japanese re-issue in United Artists' "Jazz Library 1500" series of the 1962 album. With insert and obi.
Tough! (LP)
1976 Japanese re-issue in Chess/Cadet's "Chess Black Sounds Collection" series of the 1966 album with recordings from 1957. With obi.
A Day With Art Blakey 1961 (2LP)
1983 Japanese edition with different cover on Timeless of the Dutch 1981 album. With insert and obi.
Album Of The Year (LP)
1983 Japanese edition with different cover on Timeless of the Dutch 1981 album. With insert and obi.
Keystone 3 (LP)
Original Japanese edition on Concord Jazz of the 1982 album. With insert and obi.
Aurex Jazz Festival '83 (LP)
Promotional copy of the original edition of the Japan-only 1983 LP in Eastworld's "Aurex Jazz Festival" series. With insert and obi.
New Year's Eve At Sweet Basil (LP)
1986 re-press of the 1985 Japanese live album on Paddle Wheel. With insert and obi.
Drum Suite (CD)
1992 release (light wear) ** The 1957 Columbia session with a split personality, and both halves are excellent. One side belongs to the Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble - Art Blakey surrounded by Latin percussion masters, exploring African and Afro-Cub…
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk (CD)
1992 release (light wear) ** 1958, and a perfect match: Thelonious Monk sits in with Art Blakey's Messengers - Johnny Griffin and Bill Hardman in the front line - for a full program of Monk compositions. Blakey understood Monk's rhythm like few drumm…
Mosaic (CD)
1992 release (light wear) ** The 1961 sextet masterpiece: Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, Jymie Merritt - and Art Blakey detonating Walton's title track, one of the great set-openers in the hard bop repertoire. This editi…
Free For Alll (CD)
1994 release (light wear) ** February 1964: the most ferocious Messengers record ever made, and one of the most intense hard bop sessions in the whole Blue Note vault. Wayne Shorter's title track is eleven minutes of controlled fury - Art Blakey play…
Moanin'
Moanin’ is the sound of Art Blakey turning a band into a congregation, with Lee Morgan’s trumpet, Benny Golson’s tenor saxophone, Bobby Timmons’s piano, and Jymie Merritt’s bass all testifying over Blakey’s unmistakable cymbal crashes and press rolls…
Buttercorn Lady
On Buttercorn Lady, Art Blakey leads a brief but blazing mid‑60s Jazz Messengers lineup at The Lighthouse, launching a young Keith Jarrett and Chuck Mangione in a hard‑bop set that feels both like a proving ground and a joyous passing of the torch.
Des Femmes Disparaissent
Art Blakey was the new hero on the Paris jazz scene, thanks to his Olympia concert on November 22nd 1958, and his subsequent appearances at the Club St. Germain. People swore by his 'Blues March' and 'Moanin', so why not get him to do the soundtrack …
Roots & Herbs
** Special Time-Limited Offer ** With Roots & Herbs, Art Blakey leads a Jazz Messengers unit that includes Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Bobby Timmons on piano, and Jymie Merritt on bass, a line‑up that can pivot from crisp…
Mosaic
** Special Time-Limited Offer ** On Mosaic, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers show exactly why the band became a kind of graduate school for hard bop. This edition of the Messengers fields Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Wayne…
Like Someone In Love
One of the greatest line-ups of drummer Art Blakey’s hard bop finishing school The Jazz Messengers locked into place in 1960 when tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter joined trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt for the re…
Second Set Lausanne 1960
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers ignite the Lausanne stage in Second Set Lausanne 1960, channeling hard bop’s volatile spirit through a telepathic lineup. Reeling through standards and infernal originals, the band radiates volcanic intensity and effo…
Caravan
Orrin Keepnews produced Art Blakey's 1963 debut for Riverside Records, a hard-bop triumph featuring an all-aces band: Curtis Fuller, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton and Reggie Workman. Blakey drives them with power and passion as they pl…
The Jazz Messengers
On December 17, 1947 Art Blakey led a group known as “Art Blakey’s Messengers” in his first recording session as a leader, for Blue Note Records. The records were issued as 78’s at the time and two of the songs were released on the New Sounds 10” LP …
Ugetsu
Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland is a live jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers released on Riverside Records in October 1963. The album was recorded at Birdland in New York City.
The original LP had six tracks and produce…
Introducing Paul Bley
*Limited edition of 500 copies.* Originally released in 1953 on Charles Mingus's own "Debut" label, this is Paul Bley's historical debut album. Here the young talented and technically strong pianist appears as leader of a super-trio with nothing but …
Blakey In Paris
*300 copies limited edition* This is Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers, with guests Bud Powell - piano and Barney Wilen - alto sax, caught live at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris in1959. At that time Blakey's Messengers were no less than Lee…
A Night In Tunisia
Remastered, Mono, 180 gram. Released in the late fifties, A Night In Tunisia is a Jazz milestone and prime example of Blakey's exceptional rhythmic prowess. This album is not all about drumming though; it leaves much space for great melodical interpl…
Orgy In Rhythm - Volume One
It is interesting how the Jazz sounds of the 1950s and early 1960s influenced later psychedelic bands and if you dig yourself through to the most influentual records of that mind expanding extraordinary wing of jazz music you will hit Art Blakey and …
Indestructible
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Blue Note, here comes the first releases of a new series of LPs, entitled Great Reid Miles Covers, that celebrates the extraordinary and famous covers created by graphic designer and photographer Reid Miles,…