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Hard Drive by Art Blakey (CD, May-1999, Avenue Jazz) 
Hard Drive by Art Blakey (CD, May-1999, Avenue Jazz)

 
Hard Drive by Art Blakey (CD, May-1999, Avenue Jazz)

Artist: Art Blakey
Release Date: May 1999
Format: CD
Record Label: Avenue Jazz
Genre: Drums, Jazz Instrument
UPC: 081227578329
Product ID: EPID3047106
Description: Full performer name: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey (drums); Johnny Griffin (tenor saxophone); Bill Hardman (trumpet); Junior Mance, Sam Dockery (piano); Spanky De Brest (bass). Recorded at...
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Track Listing
1. For Minors Only
2. Right Down Front
3. Deo-X
4. Sweet Sakeena
5. For Miles and Miles
6. Krafty
7. Late Spring

Details
Contributing Artists:Bill Hardman, Johnny Griffin, Junior Mance
Producer:Lee Kraft
Distributor:WEA (Distributor)
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Full performer name: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey (drums); Johnny Griffin (tenor saxophone); Bill Hardman (trumpet); Junior Mance, Sam Dockery (piano); Spanky De Brest (bass).
Recorded at Beltone Recording, New York, New York in October 1957. Originally released on Bethlehem (5028). Includes original liner notes by Nat Hentoff and reissue liner notes by Joseph F. Laredo.
Digitally remastered by Tom Multon & Greg Vaughn (Frankford Wayne Mastering Labs, New York).
HARD DRIVE, recorded for the Bethlehem label in 1957, features one of the Jazz Messengers' more overlooked lineups. The often-forgotten trumpeter Bill Hardman, tenor man Johnny Griffin, and bassist Spanky De Brest performed some of their most spirited work under Blakey's leadership. Also appearing here is pianist Junior Mance, sitting in for regular Sam Dockery on many tracks. Driven by Blakey, this is the sound of a young Messengers, after their strong beginnings under Horace Silver and before their more prolific heyday in the Blue Note era.
The Messengers of this period were defining the hard-bop style with its hard swinging, and blues and gospel undertones. The compositions and arrangements are first-rate. Griffin's "Right Down Front," in particular, reflects the down-home spirit of hard bop, borrowing heavily from older spirituals and country blues. At the same time, Hardman's intricate "DEO-X" offers a more rhythmic bent that Blakey drives with power. Although this lineup would not last long past these recordings, the spirit they infused into the music would last for the next three decades of the group's existence.

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