Just coolin '
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Just Coolin ' is a jazz album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers . The previously unreleased studio session of March 8, 1959 was released on July 17, 2020 on Blue Note Records .
background
A short time after recording the Blue Note album Moanin ' , Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers toured Europe in November 1958, performing in Scheveningen, Paris and Zurich; they played in the line-up with trumpeter Lee Morgan , tenor saxophonist Benny Golson , bassist Jymie Merritt and pianist Bobby Timmons . Golson left the Messengers after the tour and was replaced by Messengers founding member Hank Mobley when Blakey went into the studio for another Blue Note recording session.
The Just Coolin ' session was recorded on March 8, 1959 in the Hackensack studio by Rudy Van Gelder and presents Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the new line-up. The six tracks on the album include three Mobley compositions ( Hipsippy Blues , M&M and Just Coolin ' ), a Standard, Bernice Petkeres Close Your Eyes, and two previously unreleased compositions: Quick Trick by Bobby Timmons and the anonymous Jimerick . The album, which was discarded at the time of writing, was produced for the new release by jazz archivist and producer Zev Feldman and was released on CD, digital download and as an analog 180 g vinyl press by Kevin Gray. Just Coolin ' is the sixth in a series of Blue Note releases commemorating Blakey's centenary.
It is not known why Alfred Lion has decided to cancel the session, writes Chris May, but was the probable reason that the producer live five weeks later the same occupation in New York's Birdland for the two-piece set At the Jazz Corner of the World added which includes four of the six titles that make up Just Coolin ' . When the Messengers performed at Birdland, the material - previously everything new for the band - was more familiar to the musicians and the ensemble passages were played more precisely, according to May. Alfred Lion, always an advocate of this accuracy, probably decided for this reason to do the Live - To release the album and not the studio session.
Track list
- Hipsippy Blues (Hank Mobley)
- Close Your Eyes (Bernice Petkere)
- Jimerick
- Quick Trick (Timmons)
- M&M (Mobley)
- Just Coolin ' (Mobley)
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Chris May wrote in All About Jazz , "Sixty-one years after recording, Just Coolin ' confirms another truth that deserves universal recognition: hardbop of this quality is immortal."
Mauretta Heinzelmann presented Just Coolin ' on NDR as “Jazz Album of the Week”: “These recordings are over 60 years old and so fresh that they knock you off your feet .” Founding member Hank Mobley, who played here again with the Jazz Messengers , In a duet with Lee Morgan, I deliver “two-part riffs that are as tight as they are loose. In the solos, the players seem so free and expressive that you can hardly believe that it is a studio session. "
Lee Morgan is the natural successor of Fats Navarro and Clifford Brown in the bebop hierarchy, wrote Lance Liddle in Bebop Spoken Here . Mobley, who was a founding member of the Messengers, had, you could say, bridged the gap between the departure of Benny Golson and the arrival of Wayne Shorter. According to the author, Mobley was the best tenor saxophonist in the group - he also provided three of the compositions on the album. The publication was worth the wait, “although I think Alfred Lion made the right decision back then. The club atmosphere of the Birdland records gives them that certain something. "
Marc Myers (Jazzwax) praised Zev Feldman for recognizing the value of this shelf find and promoting its publication. It is fascinating to hear the Jazz Messengers in a studio setting and to compare the tracks with those of the Birdland release. If you listen to the two in a row, you have to wonder what you would have done as a producer. "I think Lion made the right call back then," Myers sums up, "but so did Zev."
Web links
- Hipsippy Blues on YouTube
- Quick trick on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Art Blakey: New album with unreleased material from July 1, 2020.
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 23, 2020)
- ↑ Blue Note Records Announces “New” Art Blakey Album. JazzTimes, March 20, 2020, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Chris May: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Just Coolin. All About Jazz, April 3, 2019, accessed April 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Chart sources: DE
- ↑ Art Blakey: Just Coolin '. NDR, July 13, 2020, accessed on July 27, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Album review: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Just Coolin '. Bebop Spoken Here, July 2, 2020, accessed July 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Marc Myers: Art Blakey: Just Coolin '. Jazzwax, July 20, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020 .