Art Blakey - Jazz Messengers!!!!! [LP]

Cat. no: 66426
Format: LP
Barcode: 8436563186608
Release Date: 17 Oct 2025
Genre: Jazz

The complete album + 2 bonus tracks - limited edition pressing on 180g vinyl - housed in a gatefold sleeve.

The formation heard here marks the third incarnation of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt, plus the addition of trombonist Curtis Fuller. 'Jazz Messengers!!!!', originally issued on the Impulse! label, marked the first time the group was expanded to a sextet, and the last recording made with Timmons, who would later be replaced by Cedar Walton.

"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." - **** Steven McDonald, AllMusic

"Morgan is brilliant from beginning to end. Shorter keeps improving. He seems to have the necessary confidence now. He, too, does not let down throughout the album and is especially effective in his dramatic entrance on 'Invitation'. Blakey, as usual, is a tremendous unifying and driving force at the core of the whole unit." - ***** Ira Gitler, DownBeat

Side 1
1. Alamode [a La Mode]
2. Invitation
3. Circus ..
4. Blue Lace
Side 2
1. You Don't Know What Love Is
2. I Hear A Rhapsody
3. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You
4. Blue Ching