ART BLAKEY & JAZZ MESSENGERS “Indestructible” LP BLUE NOTE VAN GELDER NYUSA NM

$

55

Artist:  ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS

Title:   “Indestructible”

Label:   BLUE NOTE.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is white with blue text, does not have deep groove.  Catalog number is BST 84193.   

“VAN GELDER” is stamped in the dead wax on both sides.  Does not have ear/Plastylite symbol.

Address on labels is:  BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC * NEW YORK USA on both sides.

Address on jacket at bottom is:  For Complete Catalog Write to BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC., 43 West 61st St., New York 23.

Year:  1964. 

Personnel:  

Lee Morgan – trumpet

Curtis Fuller - trombone

Wayne Shorter – tenor sax

Cedar Walton – piano

Reginald Workman - bass 

Art Blakey – drums.   

Condition: 

DISC:  NM- / VG++ with 100% of original gloss.  Appears to have been played a small number of times and handled with care.  Some minor superficial paper scuffs on Side 2, but none that are audible or distracting.  Fidelity is excellent.  A very nice record.

JACKET:   EXCELLENT with flawless front and back panels.  Light wear on seams and corners.  No writing, stickers, or other issues. 

Includes the original vintage BLUE NOTE “27 YEARS 1939-1966” factory inner sleeve in fine condition.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• The Egyptian
• Sortie  

Side Two:

• Calling Miss Khadija
• When Love is New
• Mr. Jin

Review:

“Lee Morgan once again became part of the Jazz Messengers after replacing Freddie Hubbard, who left after replacing Morgan originally.  The band is rounded out by pianist Cedar Walton, a steaming Wayne Shorter on tenor, Curtis Fuller on trombone, and bassist Reggie Workman with Art Blakey on the skins, of course.

Indestructible is a hard-blowing blues 'n' bop date with Shorter taking his own solos to the outside a bit, and with Blakey allowing some of Fuller's longer, suite-like modal compositional work into the mix as well ("The Egyptian" and "Sortie").  There are plenty of hard swinging grooves-- an off-Latin funk à la Morgan's "Calling Miss Kadija," Shorter's killer "Mr. Jin," and Walton's ballad-cum-post-bop sprint "When Love Is New" -- and the Blakey drive is in full effect, making this album comes closest in feel to the Moanin’ sessions with Bobby Timmons.  Here the balance of soul groove and innovative tough bop are about equal.  

Morgan lends great intensity to this date by being such a perfect foil for Shorter, and their trading of fours and eights in "Sortie" is one of the disc's many high points.  Morgan's bluesed-out modal frame is already in evidence here as he was beginning to stretch beyond the parameters of the 12-bar frame and into music from other spaces and times.”

(courtesy Thom Jurek, allmusic.com.)

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