Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (2021 Reissue)

More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958’s Moanin’ — featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt —was the perfect crystallization of the band’s bluesy, soulful sound, and it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all-time.

Originally self-titled, the album was later renamed Moanin’ due to the popularity of Timmons’ unforgettable opening track. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook including “Along Came Betty” and “Blues March.”

This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

TRACKLISTING

A1. Moanin’ 
A2. Are You Real 
A3. Along Came Betty 

B1. The Drum Thunder Suite 
B2. Blues March 
B3. Come Rain Or Come Shine 

PRODUCT DETAILS

Artist:  Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Label:  Blue Note
Condition:  New 
Genre:  Jazz
Format:  Vinyl LP
Cat Number:  746568
Released:  9th April 2021