Art Blakey - Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Art Blakey
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Artist: Art BlakeyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Confirmation
- Doodlin'
- Evidence
- Moanin'
- Blues March
- A Night In Tunisia
- Free For All
- When Love Is New
- Ms. B.C.
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Music Review: The Definitive Art Blakey
Rating: 4 Stars
I'll be honest and admit I struggled with this album at first. Jazz is an acquired taste and Art Blakey can be pretty `out there' even by Jazz standards. His drumming is frenetic and made my nerves feel frayed initially, but after a few listens I started to understand things a bit better.
I wouldn't say much Jazz is truly `accessible' which may be part of it's allure, we enjoy being made to work for our pleasure. But, `Moanin' is the most well known track on offer and the one I found the most listenable first time round. It is gentler and less frantic and whilst I have learned to love other tracks on offer here, this is still probably my favourite. You hardcore Jazz heads out there can call me a lightweight, I don't mind!
Some Jazz soothes you, some Jazz confuses you and some Jazz fires you up and what I like about this collection is there are all aspects on show here. That is rare enough and reason to give this a whirl, you may just pleasantly surprise yourself.
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All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.Very few drummers or bandleaders have had the impact on jazz that Art Blakey did, using his explosive playing to drive the whole hard-bop movement and his extraordinary series of bands called the Jazz Messengers. Throughout his career, Blakey was a tireless advocate of the enduring values of bop, and he created a forum in which younger talents could flourish. There are some classic versions of bop standards here, like Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia," heard in a brilliant 1960 version, and Thelonious Monk's "Evidence," with Monk at the piano on a 1957 recording. There are also tunes by Blakey sidemen that would become standards themselves: pianist Bobby Timmons's "Moanin'" and Benny Golson's "Blues March," among them. In its peak years--the late 1950s and early '60s--the Messengers were a launching pad for brilliant players like trumpeters Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard and saxophonist Wayne Shorter. In its later versions, the Messengers even spurred the careers of younger traditionalists, including Wynton Marsalis. --Stuart Broomer
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