Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (Blue Note Indie Exclusive Edition, Blue LP Vinyl)

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 off 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.”

1. Moanin'
2. Are You Real
3. Along Came Betty The Drum Thunder Suite
4. Blues March
5. Come Rain Or Come Shine