Sunday, January 29, 2012

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'

A jazz classic from the fifties. I first heard it in the Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross vocal version, which is very nice, but this pretty much epitomizes a particular type of jazz: relaxed but always meticulously focused rhythm, melodic content related to the blues but not twelve-bar blues, the musicians always, always, always listening to each other, etc.

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