Moanin

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

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Note Records
• ASIN: B000005H4X
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,952 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Warm-Up and Dialogue Between Lee and Rudy

2. Moanin'

3. Are You Real

4. Along Came Betty

5. The Drum Thunder Suite: First Theme: Drum Thunder/Second Theme: Cry a Blue

6. Blues March

7. Come Rain or Come Shine

8. Moanin' [Alternate Take][*]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This is truly one of the great classics of hard bop, with drummer Art Blakey leading arguably his greatest Jazz Messengers lineup through a driving program that never lets up. Tenor saxophonist Benny Golson (whose composition "Along Came Betty" is heard here, subsequently becoming a jazz classic), brilliant trumpeter Lee Morgan, and funky pianist Bobby Timmons (who wrote the hit title cut) each take some of the best solos of their great careers, and Blakey was never greater. No jazz record collection should be without this disc. It remains one of the premier items in Blue Note's catalog, and rightfully so. --Skip Heller

Product Description

Art Blakey's best selling album which made the Jazz Messengers a jazz institution and put Golson, Timmons, and Morgan to the forefront of jazz. (CD + LP) --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ART BLAKEY BEST RECORD, February 15, 1999

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[e-mail] (Caracas, Venezuela) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moanin (Audio CD)

This is Blakey's best Record. Try it. Bobby Timmons, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson formed the Messengers's best line up. I do not have words. Go and get the record, then we will talk.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars pure pleasure, April 29, 2000

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Seth Hurwitz (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moanin (Audio CD)

You know how when you buy speakers, the number one rule is "how does it sound?"

I don't know anything about Jazz, really. I surf the Amazon recommendations & reviews, get friends' top tens. And then the bottom line is simply "how does it sound?"

This record is certainly one the absolute best. I just smile and groove on it from start to finish.

Great tunes. Pure pleasure. Hope to find more like this.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, December 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Moanin (Audio CD)

Blakey used a rotating line-up for his Jazz Messengers band, and this overlooked crew produced a soul-jazz classic with "Moanin'." Benny Golson wrote and arranged most of the songs. Check out Blakey's tour de force in the "Drum Thunder Suite."