Released February 1964 The Freedom Rider
(1961) Roots & Herbs
(1961) Release date 1961 Label Blue Note Records | Length 54:01 (CD reissue) Artist The Jazz Messengers Producer Alfred Lion Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded February 12 (#7-8), February 18 (#4), and May 27 (#1-3, 5-6), 1961
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs Similar The Jazz Messengers albums, Jazz albums | ||
Art blakey the jazz messengers tell it like it is
The Freedom Rider is an album by jazz drummer Art Blakey and his group the Jazz Messengers. Continuing Blakey's distinct brand of hard bop, this album features contributions from Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Blakey himself, and Kenny Dorham, a former Jazz Messenger. This was the final album by this particular edition of the Jazz Messengers, who had been together for 18 months, as Lee Morgan left after this album to be replaced by a young Freddie Hubbard. The compositions themselves are varied, with Blakey contributing an energetic drum solo on "The Freedom Rider"; at least three of the compositions on the album are blues pieces. "El Toro" features a solo by Shorter incorporating the sheets of sound technique pioneered by John Coltrane.
Contents
Track listing
- "Tell It Like It Is" (Shorter) – 7:53
- "The Freedom Rider" (Blakey) – 7:25
- "El Toro" (Shorter) – 6:20
- "Petty Larceny" (Morgan) – 6:14
- "Blue Lace" (Morgan) – 5:59
- "Uptight" (Morgan) – 6:12
- "Pisces" (Morgan) – 6:52
- "Blue Ching" (Dorham) – 6:43
Personnel
Songs
1Tell It Like It Is
2The Freedom Rider
3El Toro