Appended below is the “director’s cut” (or unabridged author’s version) of a book review I wrote almost a year ago, which will soon finally see the light of day in the Journal of Popular Music Studies. The book is Mark Katz’s Groove Music, and I say enough below that I needn...
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where we sat in the listening section. When I heard Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers at the Vanguard with Bobby Timmons, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter and Jymie Merritt, that was it. Harold Vick, the tenor saxophonist, first
What you have here is an interesting series of incidental music sequences by the Jazz Messengers at the height of the hard-bop band's creative power. The music was recorded after a particularly prolific period for the musicians on the date.Moanin',one of Blakey's finest albums, was recorded...