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A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Blues March

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Released
  
1961

Release date
  
1961

Genre
  
Jazz

Artist
  
Art Blakey

Label
  
Impulse! Records

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A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Blues March (1961)
  
The African Beat (1961)

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Art Blakey albums, Jazz albums

A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Blues March is a 1961 LP release by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Movieplay records.

Contents

It is a rare session for the small Movieplay imprint featuring Jazz Messengers staple "Along Came Betty" along with three Shorter tunes, among them a less prevalent version of "Lester Left Town."

Track listing

  1. "The Summit" (Shorter) — 8:41
  2. "Along Came Betty" (Golson) — 8:41
  3. "Lester Left Town" (Shorter) — 12:32
  4. "Blues March" (Golson) — 10:21
  5. "Nellie Bly" (Shorter) — 11:41
  6. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, Billy Rose) — 11:22

Personnel

  • Art Blakey - drums
  • Wayne Shorter - tenor saxophone
  • Lee Morgan - trumpet
  • Curtis Fuller - trombone
  • Bobby Timmons - piano
  • Jymie Merritt - bass
  • Songs

    1Alamode (À La Mode)Curtis Fuller6:47
    2InvitationCurtis Fuller7:28
    3CircusCurtis Fuller5:13

    References

    A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Blues March Wikipedia