Art Blakey is more than just a giant of the jazz drums. He is a hard bop legend, a unique and innovative bandleader and the heart of one of the most prolific periods in music history. He is also a generous mentor who, after founding the collective group The Jazz Messengers with Horace Silver in the early 1950s, encouraged the development of talented young musicians such as trumpeters Clifford Brown and Donald Byrd, pianist Chick Corea and even saxophonist Wayne Shorter.
01 Warm-up And Dialogue Between Lee Rudy 0:35 02 Moanin' 9:30 03 Are You Real? 4:47 04 Along Came Betty 6:08 05 The Drum Thunder Suite 7:30 06 Blues March 6:13 07 Come Rain Or Come Shine 5:45 08 Moanin' (alternate Take) 9:19