Art Blakey

Art Blakey – Three Blind Mice Vol.1 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:21 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Three Blind Mice is a 1962 jazz album released by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers on the United Artists Jazz label, featuring live material recorded in 1962 Club Renaissance, Hollywood. It was reissued later in 1962 in two volumes by Blue Note Records, adding two tracks recorded in 1961 at The Village Gate and also unreleased material from the primary session. It was bassist Jymie Merritt’s final recording with the group before having to leave to recover from an illness; he would be replaced by Reggie Workman. United Artists and Blue Note re-issued a two-volume CD set, Three Blind Mice Vols. 1 & 2, with all available live tracks from the original date of recording and an alternate take.

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Art Blakey – Paris Jam Session (1959/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:15 minutes | 854 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Paris Jam Session is a live album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers with guest appearances by Bud Powell and Barney Wilen, recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris on 18 December 1959. It was released by Fontana (France) originally, by EmArcy in 1961, and subsequently by Verve on CD as part of their Jazz in Paris series.

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Art Blakey – New Sounds! (1991/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:19 minutes | 646 MB | Genre: Jazz
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New Sounds was originally a 10″ LP compiling previously released 78 rpm records on the Blue Note label. A CD reissue with the same name and cover appeared in 1991, but while using many of the same personnel, had only two tracks in common with the original LP. It instead compiled a distinct James Moody 10″ LP (James Moody and his Modernists, BLP 5006) with the Art Blakey tracks and included several tracks previously unreleased on LP or any format. Conversely, the tracks omitted from the CD, which were on the Moody LP, have not been reissued on CD.

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Art Blakey – Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World (1960/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:13 minutes | 439 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World is two Blue Note live albums featuring the Jazz Messengers with the leader/drummer Art Blakey, trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt. The albums were recorded on September 14, 1960 at Birdland, a jazz club in New York City.
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Art Blakey – Holiday For Skins (1959/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:03 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Holiday for Skins is a 1959 album by jazz drummer Art Blakey. Recorded for the Blue Note label in November 1958, the album was released in two volumes before being reissued together in a CD set in 2006.

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Free for All (1964/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:47 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Originally issued as Blue Note BLP 4170

High Resolution Mastering by Alan Yoshida @ Dunning-Kruger
“In preparing these hi def remasters, we were very conscientious about maintaining the feel of the original releases while adding a previously unattainable transparency and depth. It now sounds like you’ve set up your chaise lounge right in the middle of Rudy Van Gelder’s studio!” – Blue Note President, Don Was.

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Art Blakey – Drums Around The Corner (1959/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:39 minutes | 1,45 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Drums Around the Corner is a jazz album by Art Blakey which was mainly recorded in 1958, but not released until 1999.

The album comprises two sessions. The main session, recorded by Rudy Van Gelder at Manhattan Towers, New York City on November 2, 1958, is effectively a showcase for an all-star lineup drummers consisting of Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Roy Haynes and Ray Barretto (on congas). They are supported by the regular members of the Jazz Messenger at the time, Lee Morgan (trumpet), Bobby Timmons (piano) and Jymie Merritt (bass).

The later session was a duet between Blakey and bassist Paul Chambers, recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, NJ on March 29, 1959.

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Art Blakey – Blakey in Paris (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:16 minutes | 433 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was briefly known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
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Art Blakey – Au Club St Germain Vol. 3 (1959/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:35 minutes | 339 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Art Blakey et les Jazz-Messengers au club St. Germain are a set of live albums recorded on December 21, 1958, at the Club St. Germain in Paris, France by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, released in three volumes by French RCA. All three albums have been collected on CD in the 2015 Sony box set, The Complete Columbia and RCA Albums Collection.
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Art Blakey – Au Club St Germain Vol. 2 (1959/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:20 minutes | 381 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Art Blakey et les Jazz-Messengers au club St. Germain are a set of live albums recorded on December 21, 1958, at the Club St. Germain in Paris, France by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, released in three volumes by French RCA. All three albums have been collected on CD in the 2015 Sony box set, The Complete Columbia and RCA Albums Collection.
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Art Blakey – Au Club St Germain (1958/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 45:40 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager

Art Blakey et les Jazz-Messengers au club St. Germain are a set of live albums recorded on December 21, 1958, at the Club St. Germain in Paris, France by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, released in three volumes by French RCA. All three albums have been collected on CD in the 2015 Sony box set, The Complete Columbia and RCA Albums Collection.
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Art Blakey – At the Jazz Corner of the World (1959/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:37 minutes | 420 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note/Music Manager

The legendary NYC jazz club Birdland was sacred ground for drummer Art Blakey who recorded 3 live albums for Blue Note at the venue between 1954-1960: A Night at Birdland, At the Jazz Corner of the World, and Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World. This last date featured one of the greatest lineups of Blakey’s powerhouse outfit The Jazz Messengers with Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Bobby Timmons on piano, and Jymie Merritt on bass. Spirits are high on this superb outing from the iconic introduction by MC Pee Wee Marquette through 2 volumes of thrilling hard bop.
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Art Blakey – At the Jazz Corner of the World (1959/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:42 minutes | 383 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note/Music Manager

The legendary NYC jazz club Birdland was sacred ground for drummer Art Blakey who recorded 3 live albums for Blue Note at the venue between 1954-1960: A Night at Birdland, At the Jazz Corner of the World, and Meet You at the Jazz Corner of the World. This last date featured one of the greatest lineups of Blakey’s powerhouse outfit The Jazz Messengers with Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Bobby Timmons on piano, and Jymie Merritt on bass. Spirits are high on this superb outing from the iconic introduction by MC Pee Wee Marquette through 2 volumes of thrilling hard bop.
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Art Blakey – Art Blakey Big Band (1957/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:33 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bethlehem Records

Quite an unusual record from Art Blakey – a rare big band session, recorded with a lineup that’s quite different than the usual Jazz Messengers! Turns out, Blakey’s quite good in this setting – and has the same firey energy to direct a larger ensemble that he has when working with a smaller quintet. The added players here really help him express some new musical ideas with greater depth – almost like the added percussionists on some of his drum-heavy Blue Note dates of the late 50s.

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Art Blakey – Art Blakey And His Driving Big Band! (1965/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:50 minutes | 768 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was briefly known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.

Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He then worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s, Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group that the drummer was associated with for the next 35 years. The group was formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller, Chuck Mangione, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Cedar Walton, Woody Shaw, Terence Blanchard, and Wynton Marsalis. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers “the archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s”.

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