ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS "FREE FORALL", MM, 2LP, 45RPM, LE, SO, RVG, NEW
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ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS "FREE FOR ALL"
2012 MUSIC MATTERS, 2LP, 45RPM, 180G VIRGIN VINYL, CATALOG NUMBER MMBST-84170, SOLD-OUT LIMITED EDITION OF 2,500 COPIES, RECORDED BY RUDY VAN GELDER, MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOG BLUE NOTE TAPE AND PRESSED AT RTI, CAMARILLO, CA.
"IN AN ISSUE OF DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE FROM 2009, JOE LOVANO NAMED "FREE FOR ALL" AS HIS FAVORITE BLUE NOTE ALBUM OF ALL TIME. I HEARD "FREE FOR ALL" IN MY LATE TEENS. THE RAW ENERGY OF THIS RECORDING AND THE WAY BLAKEY CALLED THE SPIRITS, HOW HE FED EVERYBODY AND THEY FED HIM, GAVE THEM A SENSE OF ENSEMBLE AND PLAYING TOGETHER. WHEN FREDDIE HUBBARD CAME INTO THE BAND AFTER LEE MORGAN, HE BROUGHT SOMETHING DIFFERENT."
"THE JAZZ MESSENGERS DEVELOPED MORE OPENNESS AND FLOW IN THE WAY THEY WERE PLAYING, MOVING OUT OF THE HARD-BOP SOUND AND CONCEPT, AND STEPPING INTO NEW DIRECTIONS. ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS RECORDED MANY SUPERB ALBUMS DURING ITS 35 YEARS, BUT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO TOP THE INTENSITY AND SPIRIT OF "FREE FOR ALL". THIS 1964 GEM FEATURES AN INCREDIBLE LINEUP THAT HAD WORKED TOGETHER FOR THE PREVIOUS THREE YEARS, ONE CONSISTING OF FREDDIE HUBBARD, WAYNE SHORTER, CURTIS FULLER, CEDAR WALTON AND REGGIE WORKMAN IN ADDITION TO BLAKEY."
"THE DRUMMER INSTILLED THE LOVE OF SWINGING IN EACH IN EACH OF THE PLAYERS, ALWAYS PUSHING THEM TO PLAY AT THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE INTENSITY LEVEL WITHOUT A SECOND OF COASTING. ON THE DAZZLING "FREE FOR ALL", THE SOULFUL "HAMMER HEAD" AND AN OVER-THE-TOP VERSION OF "THE CORE", THE JAZZ MESSENGERS SHOW THAT NO OTHER GROUP COULD SWING SO HARD AT THIS EXPLOSIVE LEVEL."
1) FREE FOR ALL 2) HAMMER HEAD 3) THE CORE 4) PENSATIVA
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