Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Moanin' Release:Moanin' Blue Note Records Ray Brown and others

Ray Brown and others

Gottingen Festival Orchestra

unjustly forgotten and thus remained unperformed

resplendent with accounts of the present and rumors of the future

Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers - Moanin' Release:Moanin' Blue Note Records Ray Brown and othersLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 1958's Moanin' featuring the great drummer w trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, & bassist Jymie Merritt was the perfect crystallization of the band's bluesy, soulful sound, & it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all time. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook