In My Prime [Import]

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

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 29, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Absord Japan
• ASIN: B00005QYCZ
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,564,581 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Jodie

2. 1978

3. To See Her Face

4. Life Every Voice And Sing

5. Howkman

6. People Who Laugh

7. Time Will Tell

8. Reflections In Blue

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable, January 21, 2007

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Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In My Prime (Audio CD)

Blakey's scarcest and in many respects most exciting group, the last to feature David Schnitter's tenor sax and Walter Davis Jr.'s incredible compositions. Look for both Parts I and II of this Dutch recording. Otherwise, if you can't find the single volume editions, this may have to do. At least it has the aria-like Davis tune, "Jody." Soon after this recording, the Marsalises held court in the Messengers groups, and the Blakey fire and magic was no longer there.

A couple of other Blakey essentials--"Backgammon" and "Gipsy Folk Tales"--have yet to be reissued on CD. Both are well worth hunting down in their original LP format (don't hold your breath for a digital version of either--if Van Gelder didn't record the session, it probably won't appear. Hence, the overkill with the Morgan-Shorter-Fuller groups and shameful scarcity of later Blakey editions with musicians like Schnitter, Bill Hardman, Mickey Tucker, Vladimir Ponomarev).