ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS - Strasbourg 82 ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS
2LP set.
Cut from the original master tapes and never-before released, Gearbox Records add another true AAA production to their astonishing archive of important gems - this time from drum legend Art Blakey. Resplendent with Gearbox's high- end production specifications, it comes as a premium, double 180g gatefold vinyl and double gatefold CD with obi strip, mastered in-house at their all-valve (vacuum tube) future-analogue studio in London.
The recording itself stands as the earliest full- length live document of the Terence Blanchard/Donald Harrison edition of the Jazz Messengers - a unit that would define the band for the next few years and help power the Young Lions movement from revivalism into something deeper.
At 62, Blakey certainly was not mellowing with age. If anything, he was doubling down on the mission. "You go to school to get your diploma," he once said. "You come with me to get your education."
Strasbourg 82 is that education in progress: live and unfiltered, and captured at the very moment the university was being rebuilt.
Available on double LP in gatefold sleeve with obi strip: 12" / 180g / 33 1/3RPM / stereo / AAA and double CD in gatefold sleeve with separate booklet and obi strip.
Art Blakey: drums
Johnny O'Neal: piano
Donald Harrison: alto saxophone
Terence Blanchard: trumpet
Billy Pierce: tenor saxophone
Charles Fambrough: double bass
Track List
2LP Set
A1 - Little Man
A2 - Along Came Betty
A3 - Fuller Love
B1 - Eighty One
B2 - I Can't Get Started
C1 - New York
C2 - Old Folks
D1 - Blues March
D2 - Moanin'
2CD Set
1. Little Man
2. Along Came Betty
3. Fuller Love
4. Eighty One
5. I Can't Get Started
6. New York
7. Old Folks
8. Blues March
9. Moanin'