Complete Blue Note Collection: 1960-1962 (4CD Box Set)

Complete Blue Note Collection: 1960-1962 (4CD Box Set)
- The Complete Blue Note Collection: 1960 - 1962(4cd) by Art Blakey
ART BLAKEY S EARLY 1960S RECORDINGS AMONG HIS FINEST EVER Drummer, composer and bandleader Art Blakey is without a doubt one of the most celebrated and frequently-recorded jazz musicians in history. Alongside his group The Jazz Messengers, he released a staggering 76 albums, a further 17 under his own name and dozens more as a sideman. His unique drumming style, characterised as a dark cymbal sound punctuated by frequent loud snare and bass drum accents in triplets or cross-rhythms by Ken Burns award-nominated documentary series Jazz, helped pioneer the bebop genre. By the beginning of the 1960s, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers had truly established themselves as a formidable recording and performing unit. Comprised at this point of Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, pianist Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt, the quintet recorded a string of highly acclaimed albums on Blue Note over a two year period, including The Big Beat (1960), The Freedom Rider (1961) and The Witch Doctor (1961). Furthermore, in 1960 they once again returned to their regular haunt Birdland in New York City to record the live album Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World (Blue Note, 1960). The group would expand to a sextet with the addition of Curtis Fuller in 1961, and towards the end of the summer that year both Lee Morgan and Bobby Timmons left the band to be replaced by Freddie Hubbard and Cedar Walton respectively. It is this line up that can be heard on the 1961 album Mosaic (Blue Note). Blakey s African influences were still very much to the fore in his solo work too, with his 1962 album The African Beat (Blue Note) featuring heavy use of percussion and vocals from Nigerian drummer Solomon Ilori. Art Blakey would continue to record and perform almost without respite for the rest of his life, both with a constantly changing line up of Jazz Messengers and without. Following a difficult era in the 1970s during the rise of jazz fusion, a genre Blakey himself had little time for, the group saw a major resurgence with the advent of neo-classicalist jazz in the early 1980s. Blakey was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame in 1982. After years of playing in his trademark aggressive style Blakey s hearing began to deteriorate, forcing him to spend his final years playing to the vibrations of the band after he refused to wear a hearing aid, stating that it affected his timing. However, some of his band members would wonder if this issue was selective, with pianist Geoffrey Keezer claiming that he would go deaf when you asked him for money yet not when a band member made a mistake. Art Blakey released his final album, One For All (A&M, 1990), and made his final appearances in July of the same year. He passed away on October 16th from lung cancer, aged 71, posthumously being accepted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001 and receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. Art Blakey remains one of the most enduring legacies in all of jazz. When the genre was in danger of dying out, there was still a scene, and it was Blakey who - almost instrumentally - kept it going. This collection, containing the next eight, fully re-mastered releases in the Art Blakey catalogue, documents an era when the Messengers were at the very top of their game, combining the unmistakable style and ability of Blakey alongside some of the finest jazz musicians yet to make their names. Featuring many of the greatest recordings ever made, this set will leave nobody in doubt as to how Art Blakey became one of the most important and influential figures in jazz history.
Country USA
Brand UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP
Manufacturer Enlightenment
Binding Audio CD
ItemPartNumber 2902412
ReleaseDate 2015-12-11
UnitCount 4
UPCs 766703154685
EANs 0766703154685

Country	USA
Brand	UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP
Manufacturer	Enlightenment
Binding	Audio CD
ItemPartNumber	2902412
ReleaseDate	2015-12-11
UnitCount	4
UPCs	766703154685
EANs	0766703154685

Complete Blue Note Collection: 1960-1962 (4CD Box Set)

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