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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, A Night in Tunisia
Audio CD
Disk ID: 249451
Disk length: 1h 14m (8 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 1960
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. A Night in Tunisia | 11:16 |
| 2. Sincerely Diana | 6:51 |
| 3. So Tired | 6:39 |
| 4. Yama | 6:24 |
| 5. Kozo's Waltz | 6:49 |
| 6. When Your Lover Has Gone | 6:45 |
| 7. Sincerely Diana (Alternate Take) | 9:30 |
| 8. Data track | 19:41 |
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Review
Throughout his long career, Art Blakey built a tremendous reputation for aggressive bands that featured the most gifted young musicians. Few of his later bands, however, could stand comparison with this 1960 edition of the hard-bop juggernaut. Its members combined strong writing skills with distinctive solo voices, including the creative seeking of tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter; the edgy, sometimes blistering, trumpet of Lee Morgan; and the soul-drenched piano of Bobby Timmons. Blakey's drumming contributes an explosive drive to this CD's version of Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia," a coiling snake of bop exoticism, while "So Tired" is a Timmons essay in deep funk, like his better-known "Moanin'" and "Dat Dere" an elemental tune with subtle underpinnings. --Stuart BroomerEven in 1959, when this album was recorded, Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night In Tunisia" was the subject of endless recorded versions, most of them dull. With one of the greatest editions of the Jazz Messengers, Blakey found new inspiration in the tune and recorded this explosive, masterful version.
Members Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter and Bobby Timmons contribute originals to the album and Timmons's "So Tired" might have been a soul jazz hit were it not for the overwhelming power of the title tracks. Two bonus tracks have been added to the original album.
ART BLAKEY, drums
LEE MORGAN, trumpet; WAYNE SHORTER, tenor sax: BOBBY TIMMONS, piano; JYMIE MERRITT, bass
* Bonus tracks, not part of the original LP
Recorded on August 7 (#2, 4, 6 & 7) & August 14 (#1,3,5), 1960 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Other Versions
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Tracks: 7 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 51m 39s (-23m 39s)
Tracks: 7 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 51m 36s (-23m 36s)
Tracks: 6 (-2 tracks), Disk length: 45m 2s (-29m 2s)
Tracks: 5 (-3 tracks), Disk length: 38m (-36m)
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