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The Jazz Messengers
Studio album by The Jazz Messengers
ReleasedNovember 1956
RecordedApril 6 & May 4, 1956
Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York City
GenreJazz, hard bop
Length77:14
LabelColumbia CL 897; CK 65265 (1997)
ProducerGeorge Avakian
Michael Cuscuna (1997)
The Jazz Messengers chronology
At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2
(1956) 		The Jazz Messengers
(1956) 		Originally
(1956)
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The Jazz Messengers is the first studio album by the Jazz Messengers, released in 1956 by Columbia Records. It was their fourth overall album (after the two At the Cafe Bohemia live albums and the 1956 compilation), and also their last recording to feature the group's co-founder, Horace Silver, on piano.

In 1968, Columbia reissued the LP in their Jazz Odyssey Series with a new cover under the title Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers. In 1997 the album was digitally remastered and released on CD, again with its original title and cover, featuring all the tracks from the original LP along with five additional tracks from the same recording sessions that were previously released only on foreign imports.

Track listing

This is the track listing for the current Columbia CD release. Tracks 1−7 are from the original LP and in the same order (Columbia CL 897, 1956). The adjacent tracks 8−10 and 12 were first released on Originally (Columbia FC 38036, 1982). Track 11 was previously unreleased.

  1. "Infra-Rae" (Hank Mobley) - 6:57
  2. "Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver) - 11:51
  3. "It's You or No One" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:36
  4. "Ecaroh" (Silver) - 6:02
  5. "Carol's Interlude" (Mobley) - 5:36
  6. "The End of a Love Affair" (E.C. Redding) - 6:43
  7. "Hank's Symphony" (Mobley) - 4:37
  8. "Weird-O" (Mobley) - 7:06
  9. "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted 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

Personnel

Versions

  • The Jazz Messengers (LP), Columbia, US, 1956
  • The Jazz Messengers (LP), Philips, Europe, 1956
  • Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers (LP reissue) Columbia Jazz Odyssey Series, US, 1968
  • The Jazz Messengers (LP reissue), Columbia, US, 1981
  • The Jazz Messengers (CD, remastered), Columbia / Legacy, US and Europe, 1997
  • The Jazz Messengers (2x 180 g LP reissue) Columbia / Pure Pleasure, US, 2011
  • The Jazz Messengers (MC reissue) PolyGram Spain

References

  1. "Billboard". December 1, 1956.
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  4. Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

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