New Unreleased Art Blakey


'Just Coolin'...is the new previously unreleased Art Blakey album.  I'm a Lee Morgan fanatic and I'm on a quest to track down every recording he ever appeared on.  If you are a Morgan or Jazz Messenger fan, you need to give this a listen.  Check it out on Pandora or Napster.

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/just-coolin-art-blakey-and-the-jazz-messengers-blue-note-records?width=...

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Give me some credit! I don’t take any critic’s word as gospel even Michael Fremer whose views I don’t always agree with. If you are a big Lee Morgan fan, and you don’t already have it, I would like to recommend the film I Called Him Morgan, available on DVD. It features great music and interviews from Wayne Shorter, Jymie Merritt, and of course his common law wife, Helen, who ended his life.
Just got around to watching the "Night in Tunisia" link...

That version kills ANY other instrumental version I’ve heard to date.
WOW!

Imagine being in another band scheduled to play AFTER that?

I also like Ella Fitzgerald’s version from "Clap hands, here comes Charlie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abHkDjYRY4w

I have a fabulous 1961 mono press that I never get tired of playing.