Blakey, Art & The Jazz Messengers - Roots And Herbs (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) Rockology (Orange

Blakey, Art & The Jazz Messengers - Roots And Herbs (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) Rockology (OrangeVinyl LP pressing. Blue Note Tone Poet Series. One Art Blakey's greatest albums with the Jazz Messengers, Roots & Herbs, is little known. In 1961, the group featured Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Bobby Timmons (piano) and Jymie Merrit (bass). Recorded in Rudy Van Gelder's New Jersey studio, it's a brilliant set of six Shorter compositions, like the playful "Ping Pong" and the clever "United." It's among Blakey's finest.

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their bittersweet quality giving way

complete with hysterically out-of-date

Other album guests include Slim Twig (DFA)

Austin decided that his daughters would forgo attending the local high school in favor of home schooling interspersed with a strict regiment of instrumental and vocal practice

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With GLOW ON that utopic vision is fully realized

and this fine recording shows how he influenced a generation of guitar players including Eric Clapton

and Ozzy Osbourne to War on Drugs and Brandi Carlile (who would become a huge part of our lives

cementing the sound of it's darker predecessor

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