The Jazz Show Episode January 16, 2017

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: "Free For All"

9:04pm - 12:35am

This amazing edition of master drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers was together with this same personnel from the Fall of 1961 until the Spring of 1964. This powerful band made many great albums both live and in the studio. Tonight's album was the final statement by this band with this group of players and the four tunes on this record captured the band at it's very best just like it would sound in a hip club except it was in the optimum conditions of the recording studio. The players were Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone and the band's musical director, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Cedar Walton on piano, Reginald Workman on bass and the essential ingredient.....the mighty Art Blakey on drums. Shorter wrote two tunes including the title track and Hubbard wrote one and the album ends with a very pulsating but gentle bossa nova styled piece by pianist/composer Clare Fischer called "Pensativa". Free For All represents the very best of this great band. Check it out!

Track Listing:

Free For All
Art Blakey · Free For All
Hammer Head
Art Blakey · Free For All
The CORE
Art Blakey · Free For All
Pensativa
Art Blakey · Free For All
The Dream/It's Time!
Max Roach · Chattahoochee Red
Martin Luther King Jr/ I Know Love
Cecil Payne · Zodiac
I Have A Dream
Herbie Hancock · The Prisoner
Silence
Charlie Haden/Chet Baker · Silence
Autumn Leaves
Miles Davis · Miles at Monterey
So What
Miles Davis · Miles at Monterey
The Twilight Fall
Chelsea McBride · Socialist Night School
Lennie's Loonies
Brian Dickenson · The Rhythm Method
Trane Trip
Brian Dickenson · The Rhythm Method
Sail On, Little Girl
Jimmy Witherspoon · Baby, Baby, Baby
One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer
Jimmy Witherspoon · Baby, Baby, Baby
Lonely Boy Blues
Jimmy Witherspoon · Baby, Baby, Baby
Winter Moon
Art Pepper · Winter Moon
Our Song.
Art Pepper · Winter Moon
Summer Special
Sonny Stitt · My Mother's Eyes
Blue Skies
Sonny Stitt · My Mother's Eyes
Red Top
Sonny Stitt · My Mother's Eyes.