Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (Verve By Request Series)

From the first bars of the immediately recognizable ‘Alamode’, this album is an explosion of beauty. This first sextet iteration of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers includes a young Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Bobby Timmons (piano) and Jymie Merritt (bass). The band ferociously pushes the pace with each track, leaving no prisoners in their wake. This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit. Side A1.    Alamode2.   Invitation3.   Circus Side B1.    You Don’t Know What Love Is2.   I Hear A Rhapsody3.   Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You   Shop online 24/7 at Darkside Records. Follow us on Instagram.