Like Someone in Love [Import, Original recording remastered]

Art Blakey, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
• ASIN: B001CRGTE6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #740,145 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Like Someone in Love

2. Johnny's Blue

3. Noise in the Attic

4. Sleeping Dancer Sleep On

5. Giantis

6. Sleeping Dancer Sleep On [alternate][Alternate Take][*]

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Falling in "Love" Again, March 1, 2005

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Michael B. Richman (Portland, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Someone in Love (Audio CD)

This most recent batch of RVG reissues (2/15 & 3/1/05) features some long neglected Blue Note titles, none rarer than this one, which has been out-of-print as a single disc for nearly 15 years. Of the half-dozen albums that this edition of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (Art, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt) recorded in 1960 and early 1961, the sessions from August 7 & 14, which yielded "A Night in Tunisia" (see my review) and "Like Someone in Love," are the finest. Indeed, enough material was recorded over those two dates for two LPs, and while "Tunisia" is generally considered the masterpiece, the selections assigned to "Like Someone in Love" deserve more recognition. In particular, the title track, a beautiful standard frequently featured in the Messenger live repertoire, and Wayne Shorter's "Sleeping Dancer Sleep On," which is one of the truly great Messenger tunes. The other three songs -- Lee Morgan's "Johnny's Blue" and the Shorter penned "Noise in the Attic" and "Giantis" -- further show the burgeoning writing talents of Art's frontline players, who later in the decade would be recognized as two of that generation's most gifted jazz composers. Any Messenger fan who did not get "Like Someone in Love" in its original CD incarnation or via the now OOP Mosaic Set, would be remiss not to fall in "Love" now.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sometimes less is more, October 19, 2009

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Michael Goldstein "golds32" (new york) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Someone in Love (Audio CD)

No out takes, no extra cuts.None needed. Flat out, one of the best Jazz records I have ever listened to. That spans
40 years and thousands of recordings.Almost- in the same orbit as "Kind of Blue".Less magic, but more swing.
Shorter's tone is just majestic. A must have for jazz lovers.This review is based on my old, beautiful deep groove vinyl recording.The art on the cover is splendid,too.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible Album……, October 21, 2004

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Charles Brun (Paris, France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Like Someone in Love (Audio CD)

It is hard to believe no one made a critic of this lonely work of art… This is an exceptional piece where Lee Morgan’s trumpet perfectly blends with Wayne Shorter’s sax…Bobby, Timmons is incredible…Especially in “Johnny’s blue”…It’s definitely on my top 20 list of jazz masterpieces.