Art & the Jazz Messengers Blakey * Moanin (blue Note Essentials) [New LP] 7/22/16 " "Birthday Rap

" "Birthday Rap

Keith amassed 42 top 10 hits"

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Art & the Jazz Messengers Blakey * Moanin (blue Note Essentials) [New LP] 7/22/16 " "Birthday Rap""More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958's Moanin' 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. Featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist