Africaine
Art Blakey & His Jazz Messengers - CD
- Artist: Art Blakey & His Jazz Messengers
- Format: CD
- Year: 1998
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724349750722
- Item Number: BLN75072
- Release date: 11/17/1998
- 1. Africaine
- 2. Lester Left Town
- 3. Splendid
- 4. Haina
- 5. The Midget
- 6. Celine
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Africaine by Art Blakey & His Jazz Messengers on CD
Africaine is one of the distinct curios in the discography of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for many reasons. Recorded in 1959, not released on vinyl until 1979, and on CD for the first time in 1998, one wonders the reasons why it was summarily delayed. An alleged spat between Blakey and Blue Note head honcho Alfred Lion, the fact that this African and Cuban based jazz was ahead of its time, and the overt regularity with which Blakey was churning out albums might account for it. Certainly the first pairing of Blakey with Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, and the wonderful pianist Walter Davis, Jr. was not a factor, for the quality of this music is sky high. Shorter's initial appearance with this band is prolific as a player and composer, but Morgan contributes half the material, a fact jazz fans seem to overlook. "Haina" (short for Buhaina, Blakey's nickname) is a churning, dense, rumbling percussion saturated jam with cha cha clave beats and conga playing from usual trumpeter Dizzy Reece, a cooking Blakey urging the band to hard bop. "The Midget" (for Birdland night club doorman and announcer Pee Wee Marquette, who gave Blakey the Buhaina moniker) is the most melodic African piece where Morgan merges Blakey into shuffle grooves. "Celine" is a Latin and African jazz precept sporting a bright melody with a wondrous bop bridge for Shorter's biting tenor. Over the years the classic version of "Lester Left Town" included on this date has grown in stature. It's a tuneful, chuckling melody in hushed tones, slight dynamic variances, and singing second line displaying the new progressive jazz aesthetic perfectly, and validates the perfect partnership between Shorter and Morgan. The saxophonist's other contribution is the title track with a sweet flowing angular blues melody alongside staccato accents from the pianist. An unsung yet extraordinary jazz hero, Davis, Jr. offers his composition "Splendid," a perfect hard bop vehicle full of neat, trimmed piano accents, triple tonguing from the horns, and blue jazz notes perfectly rendered. This date is thankfully available from now on, a popular item among Blakey mavens, and a recording that shows a band fully able to fuse many exotically attractive elements into a unified whole of creative jazz music ecstasy. ~ Michael G. Nastos, Rovi
- Artist: Art Blakey & His Jazz Messengers
- Format: CD
- Year: 1998
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724349750722
- Item Number: BLN75072
- Release date: 11/17/1998
- Label: Blue Note
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Hard Bop
- Album Time: 45:39
- Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!
- Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! (Import)
- Keystone 3
- Blakey's Beat
- Keystone 3
- Coast to Coast
- Feeling Good
- A Night in Tunesia
- Live at Ronnie Scott's: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers [DRG]
- Kyoto
- Caravan
- Ugetsu
- Mission Eternal, Vol. 2 (Import)
- Caravan
- Ugetsu (Import)
- Kyoto
- Kyoto
- Caravan
- Not Yet (Import)
- I Get a Kick Out of Bu (Import)
- BLAKEY,ART & JAZZ MESSENGERS: BUHAINA (IMPORT)
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Import)
- 1958: Paris Olympia (Import)
- Jazz in Paris: Jazz & Cinema, Vol. 2 (Import)
- Moanin' [Laserlight]
- Classic Jazz Performances
- The Jazz Messengers [Columbia]
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
- ART BLAKEY : THE BIG BEAT
- Mosaic
- A Night in Tunisia [1960] (Import)
- ART BLAKEY : BUHAINA'S DELIGHT [REMASTER] [6/29]
- Free for All
- 3 Blind Mice, Vol. 1
- Three Blind Mice, Vol. 2
- The Best of Art Blakey [Blue Note/Capitol]
- Hard Bop [Bonus Tracks]
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Import)
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
- Greatest Hits
- A Night in Tunisia [1957]
- Theory of Art
- New World
- A Night in Tunisia/Jazz Messengers Play Lerner and Loewe
- Hard Bop/Paris Concert
- Jazz Messengers/Blues at Carnegie Hall
- A Night in Tunisia [JDC 2010]
- Mosaic
- Holiday for Skins
- BLAKEY,ART: VOL. 1-HOLIDAYS FOR SKIN
- Olympia May 13 1961 (Second Concert)
- Jazzbuhne Berlin '80 (Import)
- Modern Jazz Archive
- Out of Nowhere (Import)
- BLAKEY,ART: NOW'S THE TIME
- Live at Montreux and Northsea
- In My Prime
- Oh, By the Way
- Chippin' In
- Blue Night
- In My Prime, Vol. 2
- Hard Bop
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
- Midnight Session
- Keystone 3
- Ugetsu [Bonus Tracks]
- Art Blakey's Big Band [Japan] (Import)
- Hard Drive
- Live at Sweet Basil: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
- A Jazz Message
- 1958: Paris Olympia
- A Jazz Message
- Caravan
- Ugetsu
- Caravan (Import)
- Live at the 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival
- Moanin'
- At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 2
- The Big Beat
- A Night in Tunisia [1960]
- Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 1 (Import)
- Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 2
- Buhaina's Delight [2004]
- Mosaic
- The Freedom Rider
- Free for All
- At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 [Reissue]
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2 [2001]
- Ozzie in Rhythm, Vol. 2
- Moanin'
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 [Reissue]
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2
- At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1
- The African Beat
- Holiday for Skins
- Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey + Sabu
- Mosaic
- At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 1
- At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 2
- The Big Beat
- Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World [2004 Japan]
- Freedom Rider/Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
- Complete: The Jass Messengers at the Bohemia
- Night at Birdland, Vols. 1-3 [Japan]
- Three Blind Mice [Japan Import]
- Indestructible [Japan Bonus Track]
- Buhaina's Delight [2004]
- Free for All
- Like Someone in Love [RVG Edition/Bonus Track]
- Moanin'
- Moanin' [Blue Note Bonus Track]
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 [Reissue]
- Night in Tunisia [Japan 2004]
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2
- At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 [Japan]
- The African Beat
- Holiday for Skins, Vol. 1
- At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 1
- At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 2
- Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World [2004 Japan]
- The Big Beat
- The Freedom Rider
- Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 1
- Mosaic
- Indestructible
- Holiday for Skins, Vol. 2
- Moanin' [Japan]
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 [Reissue]
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2
- At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1
- A Night in Tunisia [Japan 2008]
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 [Reissue]
- Moanin' [Japan]
- Mosaic
- Big Beat [Japan Bonus Track] (Import)
- The African Beat
- Like Someone in Love [RVG Edition/Bonus Track]
- Hold On, I'm Coming
- Best of Art Blakey [Universal]
- Night in Tunisia [BMG International]
- Au Club St Germain, Vol. 3
- Au Club St Germain, Vol. 1
- Au Club St Germain, Vol. 2
- Night in Tunisia [BMG International]
- Au Club St Germain, Vol. 3
- A Night in Tunisia [1960]
- Recuerdo
- A Day with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Vol. 1
- Live in the 50's
- Three Classic Albums Plus: Big Band/Hard Drive/Jazz Messengers
- Jazz Manifesto: Art Blakey
- Eight Classic Albums (Import)
- Ninteen Classic Albums (Import)
- A Night in Tunisia [Hallmark] (Import)
- Dig That Beat
- Moanin'
- BLAKEY,ART: JAZZ MESSENGERS
- Jazz Inspiration (Import)
- A Night in Tunisia/Moanin/The Big Beat/Buhaina's Delight
- Jazz Messengers [LP w/Tshirt] [Medium]
- Jazz Messengers [LP w/Tshirt] [Large]
- Ultime Art Blakey (Import)
- Paris Jam Session
- Jazz Messengers!!!!!/A Jazz Message
- 'S Make It
- Soul Finger
- Paris Jam Session
- 1958: Paris Olympia (Import)
- BLAKEYRT & JAZZ MESSEN: ALBUM OF THE YEA
- Drum Suite
- Works of Art
- Live! At Slug's N.Y.C.
- Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!
- Lausanne 1960, Pt. 1
- Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series, Vol. 6: Lausanne 1960, 2nd Set
- Milestones in Jazz
- Moanin'
- Moanin'
- Drums Around the Corner
- Roots & Herbs
- The Witch Doctor
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1 [Reissue]
- A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2
- At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1
- Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World [Complete]
- The Big Beat [RVG Edition]
- Indestructible [Bonus Track]
- Essential
- Buhaina's Delight [2004]
- Free for All
- The Freedom Rider (Import)
- At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vol. 1-2 (Import)
- Orgy in Rhythm, Vol. 1-2
- Like Someone in Love [RVG Edition/Bonus Track]
- A Night in Tunisia [RVG Edition]
- A Night in Tunisia [1960]
- Dr. Jeckyl: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
- Hard Champion: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
- New Year's Eve at Sweet Basil: Art Blakey and His Jazz Messengers
- Art Blakey in Sweden
- A Jazz Message (Import)
- Ken Burns Jazz
- Planet Jazz (Import)
- Round About Midnight
- !! Art Blakey!! Jazz Messengers!! [Hybrid SACD]
- Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!
- Moanin'
- Moanin' [SACD]
- Caravan
- Lausanne 1960, Pt. 1
- Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series, Vol. 6: Lausanne 1960, 2nd Set
- Simplicity
- Reflections of Buhaina
- Midnight Session
- In Concert: Olympia May 13, 1961
- New York City, Birdland Club February 21, 1954
- Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1: 1955 [Giants of Jazz]
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Live [Passport]
- The Birthday Concert
- Hard Bop [Proper]
- Drum Suite [Bonus Tracks]
- Drum Suite [Bonus Tracks]
- Complete Jazz Messengers at Cafe Bohemia (Import)
- BLAKEY,ART & JAZZ MESSENGERS: MOANIN (BO
- Complete Concert at Club Saint Germain (Import)
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
- Live in Zurich 1958 (Import)
- Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
- Moanin' [Bonus Tracks]
- Complete Concert at Club Saint Germain (Import)
- Tough!/Hard Bop (Import)
- Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! (Import)
- Moanin' (Import)
- Tough! (Import)
- Blues March
- A Night at Birdland [Jazz Hour] (Import)
- Different Drummers
- The Sesjun Radio Shows
- The Jazz Messengers [Columbia]
- BLAKEY,ART: DIE ZEIT LEGEND DES JAZZ (IMPORT)
- Caravan [Keepnews Collection]
- Live at the 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival
- Ugetsu
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