Art Blakey – Eight Classic Albums [4CD Remastered] (2012)

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Title: Eight Classic Albums
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Real Gone [RGJCD303]
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop, Post Bop
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
Total Time: 4:59:11
Total Size: 712 mb / 1.82 gb
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Real Gone Jazz repackaged and re-released eight Art Blakey LPs on Blue Note and Impulse -- Holiday for Skins, Holiday for Skins, Vol. 2, Roots and Herbs, Moanin', A Night in Tunisia, Mosaic, Art Blakey!!! Jazz Messengers!!!, and The Witch Doctor -- as a box set. It's not a bad way to acquire the albums if you don't already own them, but isn't recommended for the casual fan.

:: TRACKLIST ::

Disc 1

Holiday For Skins Volume 1 - 1958
1. The Feast (08:52)
2. Aghano (06:03)
3. Lamento Africano (08:21)
4. Mirage (10:26)

Roots And Herbs - 1961
5. Ping Pong (07:03)
6. Roots And Herbs (06:03)
7. The Black Sliders (07:48)
8. United (07:27)
9. Look At The Birdie (06:43)
10. Master Mind (06:51)

Disc 2

Holiday For Skins Volume 2 - 1958
1. O'Tinde (06:13)
2. Swingin' Kilts (08:48)
3. Dinga (08:57)
4. Reflection (09:03)

Moanin' - 1959
5. Moanin' (09:33)
6. Are You Real? (04:47)
7. Along Came Betty (06:09)
8. The Drum Thunder Suite (07:31)
9. Blues March (06:11)
10. Come Rain Or Come Shine (05:45)

Disc 3

A Night In Tunisia - 1960
1. A Night In Tunisia (11:13)
2. Sincerely Diana (06:44)
3. So Tired (06:35)
4. Yama (06:22)
5. Kozo's Waltz (06:47)

Mosaic - 1961
6. Mosaic (08:11)
7. Down Under (05:27)
8. Children Of The Night (08:49)
9. Arabia (09:07)
10. Crisis (08:26)

Disc 4

Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! - 1961
1. A La Mode (06:47)
2. Invitation (07:28)
3. Circus (05:11)
4. You Don't Know What Love Is (06:58)
5. I Hear A Rhapsody (06:32)
6. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (04:57)

The Witch Doctor - 1961
7. The Witch Doctor (05:31)
8. Afrique (06:54)
9. Those Who Sit And Wait (05:52)
10. A Little Busy (06:13)
11. Joelle (05:10)
12. Lost And Found (05:03)

Bass – Jymie Merritt (tracks: 2-5 to 4-12), Wendell Marshall (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4)
Bongos, Congas – Chonguito Vincente (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4), Julio Martinez (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4), Ray Barretto (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4), Sabu Martinez (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4), Victor Gonzales* (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4)
Chanter – Art Blakey (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4), Austin Cromer (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4), Hal Rasheed (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4)
Double Bass – Jymie Merritt (tracks: 1-5 to 1-10)
Drums – Art Blakey, Art Taylor (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4)
Drums, Chanter, Vocals – "Philly" Joe Jones (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4)
Flugelhorn – Lee Morgan (tracks: 4-7 to 4-12)
Maracas – Andy Delannoy (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4)
Piano – Bobby Timmons (tracks: 1-5, 1-7, 1-9, 1-10, 2-5 to 3-5, 4-1 to 4-12), Cedar Walton (tracks: 3-6 to 3-10), Ray Bryant (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4), Walter Davis Jr. (tracks: 1-6, 1-8)
Tenor Saxophone – Benny Golson (tracks: 2-5 to 2-10), Wayne Shorter (tracks: 1-5 to 1-10, 3-1 to 4-12)
Timbales – Fred Pagani (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-1 to 2-4)
Trombone – Curtis Fuller (tracks: 3-6 to 4-6)
Trumpet – Donald Byrd (tracks: 1-1, 1-4, 2-2, 2-4), Freddie Hubbard (tracks: 3-6 to 3-10), Lee Morgan (tracks: 1-5 to 1-10, 2-5 to 3-5, 4-1 to 4-12)