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Artist: ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
Title: Chicago Jazz Festival 1987
Cat No: HH2CD3050
Format: 2CD
• Explosive performance broadcast on National Public Radio
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
• Background liners
Art Blakey & The Jazz
Messengers, live at the 9th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival on
September 5th 1987
Art Blakey’s band was unofficially
known as the ‘finishing school of jazz’, with celebrated players including Hank
Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan, Chuck Mangione, Wayne
Shorter, Keith Jarrett and Wynton Marsalis passing through its ranks over the
decades. Blakey continued to play and tour right up to the end of his life.
The superb sets here were recorded at the 9th
Annual Chicago Jazz Festival on September 5th 1987, and broadcast on NPR radio
the following year. They are presented together with notes and images.
TRACKLISTING
Disc One
with the Jazz Messengers
- Show
Intro
- Along
Came Betty
- Improvisation
#1
- Improvisation
#2
- Presentation
Disc Two
with the Reunion Jazz Messengers
- Band
Intro
- Politely
- Band
Intro
- Along
Came Betty
- Are
You Real?
- Night
In Tunisia