Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
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Along Came Betty 🎁
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbxnJ494CZI

Jukebox Friday Night has the theme "Connections" on 15 August 2025.

These are connections between different bands, or mentions in songs, or links through family, places and so on.

It's not just hip-hop: there's a whole repertoire in jazz that plays homage to other (often jazz) musicians by quoting their pieces. Case in point:

Lee Morgan, an accomplished jazz trumpeter, was inspired by Clifford Brown, whose "Jordu" is quoted here (both tracks are linked for your listening pleasure) –

1) Clifford Brown and Max Roach, "Jordu" (1954) -listen for the source from 1:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0ZUdLr1UZU

2) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, "Moanin’ ” (with Lee Morgan on trumpet) (1959) - Listen from 2:41 for the quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tHNISdk_9w

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Art Blakey and the Jazzmessengers [sic] - Blue Night

It’s amazing to think about the number of players who graduated from the Jazz Messengers at this point, 35 years into Blakey-led group.

Here, he’s joined by a young Terrence Blanchard (trumpet), Donald Harrison (alto), Jean Toussaint (tenor), Mulgrew Miller (piano), and Jonnie Plaxico (bass), playing some originals and standards.

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Along Came Betty 🅰
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkVJ9D--xS4

Along Came Betty 🔜
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTzRHq_cH5E

Along Came Betty 🚸
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJeothOwCU

Jazz 625 – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

This just appeared on Youtube a couple of days ago and I couldn’t resist sharing it here. It is from a BBC programme in the series Jazz 625 and is presented by a chap called Humphrey Lyttelton, himself a trumpeter and bandleader. Although Humph is best known as a musician on the traditional side of jazz, he was very broadminded about music and extremely knowledgeable about more modern forms, as he demonstrated on his long-running radio show The Best of Jazz, which I listened to avidly as a teenager and which introduced open my eyes and ears to lots of new things including “hard bop“, which is the genre to which this belongs.

This programme was broadcast in 1965, at which time the BBC Television programmes were all in black-and-white so the recording has been “colourized”, and think the sound has been remastered too. It sounds great.

Anyway, the band featured here is Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. I was lucky enough to hear a couple of later incarnations of this group play live in the 1980s. There’s no need to run through the personnel or tunes because Humph does so in the recording. I will just add that the intro and outro are Thelonious Monk’s 52nd Street Theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3HOtonW2gY

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moanin’ / art blakey and the jazz messengers. 1959

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers. Original 1959 US MONO (Blue Note BLP 4003)
Original Jazz Vinyl

Lee Morgan, trumpet
Benny Golson, tenor sax
Bobby Timmons, piano
Jymie Merritt, bass
Art Blakey, drums

Producer : Alfred Lion
Recorded By Rudy Van Gelder
Recorded on October 30, 1958.

00:00 Moanin’
09:41 Are You Real
14:32 Along Came Betty
20:46 The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite – First Theme: Drum Thunder
25:05 The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite – Second Theme: Cry A Blue Tear
26:15 The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite – Third Theme: Harlem’s Disciples
28:27 Blues March
34:46 Come Rain Or Come Shine
40:39 Album Photos

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“Children Of The Night” by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (1961)

https://youtu.be/5K-1ts04kPw?si

Top shelf #jazz from #ArtBlakey and his Jazz Messengers.

A stellar lineup is more than up to the task on this Wayne Shorter composition. And that horn section of Curtis Fuller, Freddie Hubbard and Shorter - 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Along Came Betty 🚸
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTzRHq_cH5E

Along Came Betty 🚸
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYt-X_D6Cm4

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Caravan

It's hard to think of this 1963 recording as one well into Blakey's career, but it was. And he's leading a bunch of great sidemen - Shorter, Hubbard, Fuller, absolutely nailing these hard bop tracks… I mean, what's not to like?

Especially this new OJC remaster by Kevin Gray - sounds great.

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Bought this about a month ago but only just got around to listening to it this Sunday afternoon. Record store day release 2022. Apparently 2500 copies only. 2LP. Pink Vinyl. #artblakeyandthejazzmessengers #nowspinning #NowPlaying #NowListening #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

Picked up the first #artblakeyandthejazzmessengers release. 1971 Japanese pressing. Great condition. Really enjoying #jazz releases from the late 50’s to 60’s #nowspinning #NowPlaying #NowListening #Vinyl #vinyl #VinylRecords #vinylcollection @vinylrecords