Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - 'Moanin’’ limited edition blue coloured vinyl LP reissue.

Due to the limited nature of this LP, we will only sell 1 copy per customer/household, multiple orders and multiple copy orders will be cancelled outright.

This LP is only available to order from UK independent stores such as ourselves.

More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958’s Moanin’ — featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt —was the perfect crystallization of the band’s bluesy, soulful sound, and it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all-time.

Originally self-titled, the album was later renamed Moanin’ due to the popularity of Timmons’ unforgettable opening track. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook including “Along Came Betty” and “Blues March”.

Tracklisting -

A1. Moanin'

A2. Are You Real

A3. Along Came Betty

The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite

B1.1. First Theme: Drum Thunder

B1.2. Second Theme: Cry A Blue Tear

B1.3. Third Theme: Harlem's Disciples

B2. Blues March

B3. Come Rain Or Come Shine