DRIFT INTO THE VOID

Artist  | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Title   | Moanin' / Orgy In Rhythm

Genre   | Jazz                                 Format  | Album
Source  | CD                                   Time    | 108:25

Label   | Not Now Music                        Store   | 2010
Catalog | NOT2CD344                            Rip     | 2021

Bitrate | 860 kbps                             Size    | 692.14 MB
Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1

CD 1/2 - Moanin'

01. Moanin'                                                     9:34
02. Are You Real                                                4:50
03. Along Came Betty                                            6:11
04. The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite                          7:33
05. Blues March                                                 6:16
06. Come Rain Or Come Shine                                     5:47

CD 2/2 - Orgy In Rhythm

01. Buhaina Chant                                              10:32
02. Ya Ya                                                       7:07
03. Toffi                                                      12:20
04. Split Skins                                                 8:58
05. Amuck                                                       6:49
06. Elephant Walk                                               6:57
07. Come Out And Meet Me Tonight                                5:43
08. Abdallah's Delight                                          9:48

In the 60s, when John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman were defining the
concept of a jazz avant-garde, few knowledgeable observers would
have guessed that in another 30 years the music's mainstream would
virtually bypass their innovations, in favor of the hard bop style
that free jazz had apparently supplanted. As it turned out, many
listeners who had come to love jazz as a sophisticated manifestation
of popular music were unable to accept the extreme esotericism of
the avant-garde; their tastes were rooted in the core elements of
'swing' and 'blues', characteristics found in abundance in the music
of The Jazz Messengers, the quintessential hard bop ensemble led by
drummer Art Blakey.

In the 60s, 70s, and 80s, when artists on the cutting edge were
attempting to transform the music, Blakey continued to play in more
or less the same bag he had since the 40s, when his cohorts included
the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Fats Navarro. By the
80s, the evolving mainstream consensus had reached a point of
overwhelming approval in regard to hard bop: this is what jazz is,
and Art Blakey - as its longest-lived and most eloquent exponent -
was its master.

Although the great Blakey virtually started his professional life as
a bandleader, it's interesting to note that, at that juncture, he
was not a drummer but a piano player. Once bitten by the drumming
bug, however, it was clear where his future lay. This remastered two
disc set offers "Moanin" and "Orgy In Rhythm", two albums originally
released on the Blue Note label which offer an insight into just why
Art Blakey will always be regarded as a master drummer.