Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Moanin’ (Blue Note Essentials Vinyl Series) 1LP ETJS-3.2 but for reasons lost to

but for reasons lost to time it was shelved

was in many ways the quintessential hard bop pianist

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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Moanin’ (Blue Note Essentials Vinyl Series) 1LP ETJS-3.2 but for reasons lost toBlue Note, 1958 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 bands 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