Jazz Icons: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Live In '58

Jazz Icons: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Live In '58 (2006)

September 26th, 20060h 55min

Music, Documentary
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers features what many consider to be one of the fi nest line-ups in the history of jazz—Bobby Timmons (Piano), Jymie Merritt (Bass), Benny Golson (Sax) and the legendary trumpet player, Lee Morgan. Lost for nearly 50 years, this historic 55 minute concert, fi lmed in Belgium in 1958, one month to the day after they recorded their masterpiece Moanin,’ is the only known visual document of this infl uential band who were together for only six months.


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