Impulse!!!!! Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!!
by Art Blakey
- Type: Album
- Released: 1 September 1961
- Label: Impulse!
- Country: United States
- Length: 38:04
- Community rating: 4.21/5 from 7 ratings
Artists on this release: Curtis Fuller, Jymie Merritt, Michael Cuscuna, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, Lee Morgan
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Functioning as a rare, one-off session for the newly established Impulse! imprint, this album captures the definitive Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan lineup. The recording emphasizes extended, blistering solos over standard hard bop structures, anchored constantly by Blakey's relentlessly powerful backbeat.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, improvisation, rhythmic
Tracklist
- Alamode (6:50)
- Invitation (7:28)
- Circus (5:14)
- You Don't Know What Love Is (7:00)
- I Hear A Rhapsody (6:33)
- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (4:57)
Credits
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - primary artist, drums
- Jymie Merritt - bass
- Rudy Van Gelder - engineer
- Bobby Timmons - piano
- Michael Cuscuna - reissue producer
- Erick Labson - remastered by [digital]
- Wayne Shorter - tenor saxophone
- Curtis Fuller - trombone, written-by
- Lee Morgan - trumpet
- Bronislaw Kaper - written-by
- Paul Francis Webster - written-by
- Bob Russell - written-by
- Louis Alter - written-by
- Don Raye - written-by
- Gene DePaul - written-by
- Dick Gasparre - written-by
- George Fragos - written-by
- Jack Baker - written-by
- Andy Razaf - written-by
- Don Redman - written-by