Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Live In Paris '65

Limited Edition - 2000 Copies Worldwide!
Available For The First Time On 180g Vinyl LP!
Remastered From Original Master Tapes & Pressed at Pallas!

Art Blakey's "Live In '65" boasts an exceptional one-hour concert from Paris in 1965. This performance showcases one of the few undocumented Blakey bands, the New Jazzmen, featuring Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Jaki Byard on piano, Reggie Workman on bass, Nathan Davis on sax, and, of course, Blakey on drums. Freddie Hubbard's incendiary playing on "Blue Moon" and the blistering 24-minute version of his own "Crisis" shows that he was one of the most innovative trumpeters in jazz history.

On this live session, the audiences seem to have been enthusiastic and appreciative. "Everywhere we'd go people would say, this is the best Jazz Messengers we've heard" according to Davis. "And because of the way Jaki would play and Reggie would go, it was like a semi-freedom thing - with Messengers heads, you know, but when we got to soloing...! And Blakey was ridin' and oatin' the time ... but he would always be loose enough to follow, to keep it going. He's one helluva musician."

Features

• Limited Edition - 2000 Copies Worldwide
• 180g Vinyl
• Recorded at Palais de la Mutualité, Paris, France, November 3, 1965
• Available for the first time
• Remastered from original master tapes
• Pressed by Pallas in Germany

Musicians

Selections

Side A:

1. The Hub
2. Blue Moon

Side B:

1. Crisis