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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Recorded	Feb 20, 1964
Label	Riverside Records
Released	1964
Personnel	7 credited players
Discogs	master 145389

The record

Hubbard, Fuller and Shorter stack a deep front line while Walton settles into the piano chair, the group already leaning toward the knottier writing Shorter kept bringing to rehearsal.

Session personnel

Reggie Workman — bass
Art Blakey — drums
Cedar Walton — piano
Wayne Shorter — tenor saxophone
Curtis Fuller — trombone
Freddie Hubbard — trumpet
Wellington Blakey — vocals

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 21 pressings on file.

1966	Riverside Records · RM 493 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
2008	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-145 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo OJC
1966	Riverside Records · RS 9493 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1966	Riverside Records · RS 9493 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Turquoise, Stereo
1966	Riverside Records · RS 9493 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Turquoise, Stereo cover
1968	Riverside Records · 673 013 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1968	Riverside Records · 673 013 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1968	Riverside Records · RS 3303 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1968	Riverside Records · 673 013 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1968	Riverside Records · 673 013 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1981	Riverside Records · SMJ-6287 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1984	Original Jazz Classics
1984	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-145 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1984	Original Jazz Classics · OJC 5145 — Cassette, Album, Reissue, Remastered, CrO2 Chromium Dioxide Tape