Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers

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Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers
Studio album by Art Blakey
Released 1956
Genre Jazz
Label Columbia records
Art Blakey chronology
At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2
(1955)		 Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers
(1956)		 Originally
(1956)

Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers is a 1956 album release by Art Blakey & and the Jazz Messengers for Columbia records. It was the last recording by the inaugural Jazz Messengers lineup featuring pianist Horace Silver.

The LP is out-of-print. Columbia has re-issued a CD, The Jazz Messengers, featuring all the tracks from Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers along with five additional tracks drawn from the same recording sessions but previously released only on foreign imports.

[edit] Track Listing

The track listing for the current Columbia CD release:

  1. "Infra-Rae" (Mobley) - 6:57
  2. "Nica's Dream" (Silver) - 11:51
  3. "It's You or No One" (Cahn, Styne) - 5:36
  4. "Ecaroh" (Silver) - 6:02
  5. "Carol's Interlude" (Mobley) - 5:36
  6. "The End of a Love Affair" (Redding) - 6:43
  7. "Hank's Symphony" (Mobley) - 4:37
  8. "Weird-O" (Mobley)* - 7:06
  9. "Ill Wind" (Arlen, Koehler)* - 2:52
  10. "Late Show" (Mobley)* - 7:09
  11. "Deciphering the Message" (Mobley)* - 6:29
  12. "Carol's Interlude (alternate take)" (Mobley)* - 6:13
  • Starred tracks are re-issue only.

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