Art Blakey, The Jazz MessengersFeaturing: Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard
Free For Alll (CD)
LabelBlue NoteGenreJazz & Improvisation
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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 playing like a man possessed, pushing wave after wave of pressure under the horns, with Freddie Hubbard answering everything at full burn. Shorter's "Hammer Head" and Hubbard's "The Core" keep the temperature high. Recorded right as the new thing was breaking all around them, this is hard bop pushed to its absolute structural limit - the old form containing the new fire, barely. Magnificent. CD edition.
Release notes
Recorded on February 10, 1964 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Originally issued as BST 84170. Purchased only with "Blue Note Magazine" review. ℗ & © 1994 Capitol Records, Inc. Made in Italy.
| 1 | Free For All | 11:06 | |
| 2 | Hammer Head | 7:48 | |
| 3 | The Core | 9:23 | |
| 4 | Pensativa | 8:22 |
- Reggie Workman
- Bass
- Reid Miles
- Cover [Design]
- Art Blakey
- Drums
- Francis Wolff
- Photography By [Cover Photo]
- Cedar Walton
- Piano
- Alfred Lion
- Producer
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Recorded By
- Wayne Shorter
- Tenor Saxophone
- Curtis Fuller
- Trombone
- Freddie Hubbard
- Trumpet
