JAZZ MESSENGERS 1956 Columbia LP / Six-Eye original NM
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THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
1956 Columbia LP
One of the best groups to emerge during the period when modern jazz decided that swing was not only not old-fashioned but a highly desirable commodity is the Jazz Messengers, a co-operative unit organized in early 1955.
The musicians in this album form the personnel which has borne the Messenger banner during most of the unit's career. They demonstrate, in these free-wheeling performances, that small-combo jazz can be arranged with plenty of room for improvisation, and with carefully worked-out ideas to set the group in a different setting in each number.
The material in this collection consists of two rarely-heard ballads and five originals (by Horace Silver and Hank Mobley). Variety is the keynote here, even though the group contains only five musicians and all the performances are more than usually long. Frequent and varied use of a Latin beat helps make some of this possible; more often, it is in the ensemble writing and the dynamic improvising of the soloists.
Expositions of themes invariably make rich use of the many resources of the group. Often a shifting rhythmic pattern is set up under the first chorus, changing to a swinging 4-4 when the solo section comes in. Even then, contrapuntal passages here and there -as in the unexpected but tension-building cross-rhythms set up by Silver and Blakey midway in Mobley's solo of Infra-Rae-are frequently used to keep the listener pleasantly off-balance.
Infra-Rae, incidentally, is a capsule distillation of the whole Jazz Messengers approach. It contains a little of everything the group does, including Blakey's showmanship drumming. He has few equals either as a backer for soloists, as an ensemble musician, or as a soloist himself. [ George Avakian ]
Remarkable lineup on this ORIGNAL VINTAGE LP – with Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, Don Byrd, Horace Silver and Doug Watkins. This is a deep groove, six eye Columbia US pressing, CL 897.
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TRACK LISTING:
- Nica’s Dream
- It’s You Or No One
- Ecaroh
- Carol’s Interlude
- The End Of A Love Affair
- Hank’s Symphony
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