Da impressionante série de reedições Music Matters 33rpm, um dos melhores títulos da Blue Note e sessão memorável de Art Blakey gravada por Rudy Van Gelder. Masterização audiófila de Kevin Gray das Master Tapes Analógicas Originais na Cohearent Audio em vinil virgem 180 gramas prensado na RTI e apresentado em luxuosa capa gatefold com fotos de alta resolução da sessão.

• Edição limitada a 3500 unidades
• Corte a partir das Master Tapes Originais Rudy Van Gelder da Blue Note
• Remasterizado por Kevin Gray na Cohearent Audio
• Masterização e Corte 100% Analógicos
• Prensado em vinil virgem 180 Gramas na RTI USA
• Capa gatefold Deluxe com fotos da sessão em alta resolução

Art Blakey was one of the greatest of all jazz drummers, a masterful talent scout and the inspiring leader of the Jazz Messengers. For 35 years (1955-90), the Jazz Messengers featured brilliant young talent who were pushed by Blakey to write new music and play at their very best. One certainly could not coast with Blakey's explosive drumming constantly egging on the players. The who's who of jazz passed through Blakey's band for several generations, with everyone from Freddie Hubbard and Wynton Marsalis to Benny Golson and Horace Silver benefiting from the hard-swinging experience.

But few lineups could compete with the 1960 edition of the Jazz Messengers featured on The Big Beat. Blakey, the "old man" of the band at 30, is joined by bassist Jymie Merritt and three brilliant stylists who were not only exciting soloists but very skilled songwriters: trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor-saxophonist Wayne Shorter and pianist Bobby Timmons. The Big Beat introduces Timmons' "Dat Dere" (which practically defines soul jazz) and Shorter's "Lester Left Town" (a tribute to Lester Young) and includes an inventive version of "It's Only A Paper Moon" along with a few other lesser-known but colorful pieces. This is hard bop at its finest from one of the most immortal jazz groups of all time.

Músicos:

Art Blakey, bateria
Lee Morgan, trompete
Wayne Shorter, sax tenor
Bobby Timmons, piano
Jymie Merritt, contrabaixo

Lista de Faixas:

1. The Chess Players
2. Sakeena's Vision
3. Politely
4. Dat Dere
5. Lester Left Town
6. It's Only A Paper Moon

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