Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

I Get A Kick Out Of Bu is the album Art Blakey recorded in Milan for Soul Note with The Jazz Messengers of 1988, a sextet under the drummer. It was cut in a single day in November 1988 and released in 1990, eight tracks lasting about fifty-one minutes. The programme follows the band's habit of mixing originals by its members with standards and a Horace Silver tune, and it ends with a nine-minute unaccompanied solo by the leader.

The session took place in Milan on November 11, 1988. The front line is trumpeter Philip Harper, trombonist Robin Eubanks and tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson, with Benny Green on piano and Leon Dorsey on bass. Two of the pieces come from inside the band: Harper wrote the opener, Yang, and Eubanks the ballad Remember When. Mayreh is by Silver, a tune Blakey had already played at Birdland in 1954 with Clifford Brown. The standards are split among the soloists, as the jazzdisco session listing shows: Harper sits out Good Morning Heartache, which is left to Jackson and the rhythm section, while Lover Man is a feature for Eubanks without the other horns. Love Walked In and the closing I Get A Kick Out Of You, the Cole Porter song behind the album's pun of a title, bring the whole sextet back. Between them comes Drum Solo No. 7, Blakey alone for more than nine minutes. In the autumn of 1988 the same rhythm section and Jackson also recorded with Freddie Hubbard in Holland, and a September set at Sweet Basil in Greenwich Village was issued in Japan.

Soul Note CD 121155-2, the original 1990 release of the album, issued at the same time on LP as 121155-1.