The Big Beat (Art Blakey album)

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The Big Beat
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Released1960
RecordedMarch 6, 1960
Studio Van Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length47:49
Label Blue Note
BLP 4029
Producer Alfred Lion
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers chronology
Paris Jam Session
(1959)
The Big Beat
(1960)
A Night in Tunisia
(1961)
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The Big Beat is an album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers recorded on March 6, 1960 and released on Blue Note later that year. The quintet features horn section Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter and rhythm section Bobby Timmons, Jymie Merritt and Blakey.

Contents

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "The Chess Players" (Shorter) – 9:31
  2. "Sakeena's Vision" (Shorter) – 6:04
  3. "Politely" (Hardman) – 6:04

Side 2

  1. "Dat Dere" (Timmons) – 8:47
  2. "Lester Left Town" (Shorter) – 6:26
  3. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Arlen, Harburg, Rose) – 6:38

CD reissue bonus track

  1. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (alternate take) – 6:19

Personnel

The Jazz Messengers

Technical personnel

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References

  1. The Big Beat at AllMusic
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide . USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp.  25. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 133. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.