Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers- Art Blakey!!!!! The Jazz Messengers!!!!! (Verve By Request Series)Label: Verve Reissued 2024, Originally released 1961 From the first bars of the immediately recognizable "Alamode," this album is an explosion of beauty. This first sextet iteration of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers includes a young Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Bobby Timmons (piano) and Jymie Merritt (bass). The band ferociously pushes the pace with each track, leaving no prisoners in their wake. Track

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Recorded at Olympic Studios in London between December 1977 and January 1978 with producer Martin Rushent and featuring the line-up of Pete Shelley (vocals / guitar)

Love Changes Everything I

Bridge Burning

Linus And Lucy / Poor Charlie Brown

Made Out With Your Best Friend

Coltrane also plays a bit of soprano saxophone as a primer for his more exploratory work to follow

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Talking Book saw Wonder enjoying more artistic freedom from Motown

Murray Street was the first album by the band to feature Jim O'Rourke as an official fifth member to bolster the group's sound

Released in November 1987