ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS: DRUM SUITE [Re-up]

ART BLAKEY
Mais uma incursão do grande mestre ART BLAKEY & JAZZ MESSENGERS pela seara do latin-jazz, com a inclusão no grupo de dois dos mais notáveis percussionistas latinos de todos os tempos: Sabu Martinez e Candido Camero. Como sempre, o legendário combo traz em sua formação nomes notáveis do jazz, o creme-do-creme. Coisa muito séria.
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ALBUM REVIEW
Drum Suite is a unique entry in the Blakey discography. Originally comprised of two
sessions - one debuting Blakey’s first percussion ensemble, the other with the unit
featuring Bill Hardman, Jackie McLean, Sam Dockery and Spanky DeBrest - this reissue
appends a third date including two rare tracks and a previously unissued alternate take by the short-lived group with Donald Byrd, Ira Sullivan, Kenny Drew and Wilbur Ware. Although both of the quintets offer some typically swinging Messenger material, it is the percussion ensemble that makes this disc worth picking up. Papa Jo Jones, Specs Wright, Sabu Martinez, Candido, Ray Bryant and Oscar Pettiford join Blakey for three loosely interwoven pieces. The work begins with the leader’s “The Sacrifice”, which opens with Wright’s tympani and Sabu’s Swahili chant and progresses into a rumba that includes a previously excised Ray Bryant piano solo. Bryant’s “Cubano Chant” is dramatized by a group vocal and a series of exciting percussion solos and Pettiford’s “Oscalypso” features the composer on cello for one of the finest solo outings in all of jazz on that instrument.
(Source: http://www.allaboutjazz.com)
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MINHA OPINIÃO: este álbum nos traz o resultado de mais uma incursão de ART BLAKEY pelos ritmos latinos. A exemplo de outro álbum já postado no blog (CU BOP), o grande "Buhaina" reuniu o velho conhecido SABU MARTINEZ e o mestre CANDIDO CAMERO para cuidarem do "latin groove". E na base, juntou em várias formações diferentes, grandes nomes de seus respectivos instrumentos, como o legendário baixista OSCAR PETTIFORD, os pianistas KENNY DREW e RAY BRYANT, os sopros de JACKIE MCLEAN, DONALD BYRD, etc. Como sempre, Blakey se cercou dos melhores instrumentistas, que fizerem do antológico JAZZ MESSENGERS uma das mais importantes formações da história do Jazz. MARAVILHA!
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ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS: DRUM SUITE
Label: Columbia/Legacy


PERSONNEL:
Art Blakey - (drums)
Candido - (vocals, acoustic bass, congas, percussion)
Specs Wright - (vocals, drums, timpani, gong)
Sabu - (vocals, congas, bongos, percussion)
Oscar Pettiford - (cello, acoustic bass)
Jackie McLean - (alto saxophone)
Ira Sullivan - (tenor saxophone, trumpet)
Donald Byrd, Bill Hardman - (trumpet)
Kenny Drew, Ray Bryant, Sam Dockery - (piano)
Spanky DeBrest, Wilbur Ware - (acoustic bass)
Jo Jones - (drums)


TRACKS/FAIXAS
1. Sacrifice
2. Cubano Chant
3. Oscalypso
4. Nica's Tempo
5. D's Dilemma
6. Just for Marty