Artist:Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Song:Sakeena's Dream
Album:The Big Beat
Art Blakey was a great drummer but his legacy is the musicians who came through the Jazz Messengers and became legends in their own right. This 1960 recording features Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on sax & Bobby Timmons on piano. Shorter wrote Sakeena's Dream and all three went on to bigger things. That was the way Blakey did things. He'd school young musicians and then kick them out. Shorter is still one of the top names in jazz today. The band was always great straight ahead bop. Blue Note re-released The Big Beat as part of the Rudy Van Gelder series in 2005 with an extra track. It's a classic.
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