Midnight Session [Import]

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

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 21, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Columbia Japan
• ASIN: B000AHQF98
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #408,761 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Casino

2. Biddie Griddies

3. Potpourri

4. Ugh!

5. Mirage

6. Reflections Of Buhainia

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars ORIGINAL COVER ART, August 18, 2008

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John M. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Midnight Session (Audio CD)

This is the original cover art from the late 50's---- REFLECTIONS OF BUHAINIA gives you this session plus tracks from a Bill Hardman quintet session on Savoy with Sonny Red on alto. Jackie McLean is the altoist on the Messenger tunes with Hardman his front line mate. The tunes though all originals sound a bit familiar at times. The Biddie Griddies is reminiscent of Bohemia After Dark, while Potpourri seems to to be based on The Way You Look Tonight. On the walking ballad Mirage, Jack distinctly says Thanks For The Memory, with his horn but the back up phrasing is completely different--and hipper.---- This group record more in 1957. There's HARD BOP and A NIGHT IN TUNISIA the latter of which adds Johnny Griffin as the third and always third soloist behind Jack and Bill. Then there are the quintet rarities, and probably rightfully so, RITUAL and TOUGH!- which was not released for 10 yrs after being recorded. There are a bunch of piano first, piano in the middle tracks on these last 2 and the tunes weren't too hot to begin with. Besides Bill Hardman is becoming a bit tedious by now anyway. If you can't find these last 2 don't worry about it.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Session. Grab It!, September 20, 2010

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J. Robert (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midnight Session (Audio CD)

To be honest, I'm infatuated with Jackie McLean at the moment. I heard him on Freddie Redd's "Shades of Redd" with Tina Brooks and was blown away. (I can't figure why McLean is not a household name, in the same breath as Parker and Coltrane. Awesome!) So, after buying every cd I could with McLean's name on it, I started tracking down *anything* he played on. (-Which is a pretty long list) Said titles are disappearing fast, and this is a good one. A 1957 blowing session, this is Blakey just getting rolling with the Messengers. Granted, everyone on this disc would have far superior outings later in their careers, but if you want a killer bop date representing some great players cutting their teeth, pick this up while you still can.