Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!

Jazz Messengers!!!!! is a 1961 jazz album released by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers for Impulse! Records. Expanding to a sextet for the first time, it was the group's final recording with Bobby Timmons, who would be replaced by Cedar Walton.

Jazz Messengers!!!!!
Studio album by
Art Blakey
ReleasedSeptember 1, 1961
RecordedJune 13, 1961 (#3, 5)
June 14, 1961 (#1-2, 4, 6)
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length38:00
LabelImpulse!
A-7
ProducerBob Thiele
Art Blakey chronology
The Witch Doctor
(1961)		 Jazz Messengers!!!!!
(1961)		 Mosaic
(1961)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.)
Down Beat[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
Tom HullB+[4]

Reception

In his Down Beat review of January 4, 1962, critic Ira Gitler commented: "This is a change of pace from most recent Messenger releases. There is only one original; the rest are standards that have not been overdone."[2] AllMusic reviewer Steven McDonald called it "An absolutely wonderful 1961 set from Blakey and company, who demonstrate here how to be note-perfect without leeching away the emotion of a performance."[1]

Track listing
  1. "À la Mode" (Curtis Fuller) — 6:40
  2. "Invitation" (Bronislau Kaper, Paul Francis Webster) — 7:25
  3. "Circus" (Lou Alter, Bob Russell) — 5:12
  4. "You Don't Know What Love Is" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) — 6:55
  5. "I Hear a Rhapsody" (Jack Baker, George Fragos, Dick Gasparre) — 6:30
  6. "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) — 5:00

Personnel

References
  1. McDonald, Steven. Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  2. Down Beat: January 4, 1962, vol. 29, no. 1
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 25. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.



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