Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Moanin' Release:Moanin' Blue Note Records a compulsive note-taker

a compulsive note-taker

as well as concert appearances in Europe and Japan

unjustly forgotten and thus remained unperformed

Every 3-CD set comes with a 160-page booklet including biographies

Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Moanin' Release:Moanin' Blue Note Records a compulsive note-takerLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 1958's Moanin' featuring the great drummer w trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, & bassist Jymie Merritt was the perfect crystallization of the band's bluesy, soulful sound, & it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all time. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook