Remastered 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 including "Along Came Betty" & "Blues March."
Full performer name: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.
The Rudy Van Gelder Edition of MOANIN' includes an essay by Bob Blumenthal.
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey (drums); Benny Golson (tenor saxophone); Lee Morgan (trumpet); Bobby Timmons (piano); Jymie Merritt (bass).
Producer: Alfred Lion.
Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.
- Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on October 30, 1958. Originally released on Blue Note (4003). Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather and Bob Blumenthal.
- Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Rudy Van Gelder (Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey).
- This is part of the Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder Editions series.
- Format: Vinyl
- Genre: Jazz
Tracklist
| A1 | Moanin' | |
| A2 | Are You Real | |
| A3 | Along Came Betty | |
| The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite | ||
| B1.1 | First Theme: Drum Thunder | |
| B1.2 | Second Theme: Cry A Blue Tear | |
| B1.3 | Third Theme: Harlem's Disciples | |
| B2 | Blues March | |
| B3 | Come Rain Or Come Shine |
