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Free for All
by: Art Blakey

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724357106726
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Blue Note
Manufacturer: Blue Note
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Blue Note
Release Date: August 09, 2004
Studio: Blue Note
Sales Rank: 60111

Disc 1:
  1. Free For All
  2. Hammer Head
  3. Core
  4. Pensativa
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Editorial Review:

From Amazon.com:
A full decade after the Messengers were formed, Art Blakey's revolving-door unit had evolved from a funk-heavy, blues-oriented hard-bop quintet into a probing and turbulent postbop sextet that betrayed the influence of free-leaning musicians like John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. This mentality peaked on the title track to this 1964 firecracker, the most intense and feverish recording in Messenger history, whipped forward by Blakey's absolutely violent and vicious percussion. The hornmen--Curtis Fuller, Freddie Hubbard (who wrote "The Core"), and especially Wayne Shorter (who composed both "Free for All" and "Hammer Head")--do admirably well just to be heard atop Blakey's frenzied polyrhythms, leaving melody behind in favor of fiery spirit and starch. And if it's not the drums doing the prodding, it's Blakey's well-timed grunts and growls of admonishment and approval. --Marc Greilsamer



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Not for girls
Throughout the 1950's and 60's, Blue Note issued hundreds of records that came to define what became known as "Hard Bop." Unlike other labels, they paid the musicians for their rehersal time and the tightness of the bands reflects this. I suspect that this contributes alot to the on-going popularity of records that are now over forty years old.
On this CD, Art Blakey leads his firey Jazz Messengers through four extended tracks on a testosterone-fuelled session that, for many , defines what "Hard Bop" was all about. There is little room for subtlety in this set and the opening title track sets the tone. This is undoubtedly the finest Messeneger's line-up with Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and Curtis Fuller completing the front line. ... Read More:

 



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