BLAKEY, ART / ROOTS AND HERBS [TONE POET SERIES]
Vinyl LP pressing. Blue Note Tone Poet Series. One Art Blakey’s greatest albums with the Jazz Messengers, Roots & Herbs, is little known. In 1961, the group featured Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Bobby Timmons (piano) and Jymie Merrit (bass). Recorded in Rudy Van Gelder’s New Jersey studio, it’s a brilliant set of six Shorter compositions, like the playful “Ping Pong” and the clever “United.” It’s among Blakey’s finest.
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Vinyl LP pressing. Blue Note Tone Poet Series. One Art Blakey’s greatest albums with the Jazz Messengers, Roots & Herbs, is little known. In 1961, the group featured Lee Morgan (trumpet), Wayne Shorter (tenor sax), Bobby Timmons (piano) and Jymie Merrit (bass). Recorded in Rudy Van Gelder’s New Jersey studio, it’s a brilliant set of six Shorter compositions, like the playful “Ping Pong” and the clever “United.” It’s among Blakey’s finest.
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Credits
1 Ping Pong
2 Roots and Herbs
3 The Back Sliders
4 United
5 Look at the Birdie
6 Master Mind
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