BLAKEY,ART & THE JAZZ MESSENGE
MOANIN (BLUE NOTE ESSENTIALS SERIES) - LP

UPC: 199957593083
Label: BLUE NOTE RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: July 17, 2026
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Blue Note Essential Vinyl Series!
140g Vinyl LP Mastered from Hi-Res Digital Masters!

More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, 1958's Moanin'—featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt—was the perfect crystallization of the band's bluesy, soulful sound, and it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all-time. Originally self-titled, the album was later renamed Moanin' due to the popularity of Timmons' unforgettable opening track. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook including "Along Came Betty" and "Blues March."

Blue Note Essential titles are mastered from hi-resolution digital masters on 140 gram vinyl.

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TRACK LIST:

Side A:

1. Moanin'
2. Are You Real
3. Along Came Betty

Side B:

1. The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite
2. Blues March
3. Come Rain Or Come Shine