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Blakey, Art & The Jazz Messengers - Strasbourg 82
Blakey, Art & The Jazz Messengers - Strasbourg 82
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Cut from the original master tapes and never-before released, Gearbox Records add another true AAA production to their astonishing archive of important gems - this time from drum legend Art Blakey
At 62, Blakey certainly was not mellowing with age. If anything, he was doubling down on the mission. "You go to school to get your diploma," he once said. "You come with me to get your education." Strasbourg 82 is that education in progress: live and unfiltered, and captured at the very moment the university was being rebuilt.
"There have been so many extraordinary iterations of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers that some remarkable editions have tended to get overlooked. I think that's the case with the 1982 band...Strasbourg 82 shows that the Blakey bands never stopped pushing the envelope." - NPR
At 62, Blakey certainly was not mellowing with age. If anything, he was doubling down on the mission. "You go to school to get your diploma," he once said. "You come with me to get your education." Strasbourg 82 is that education in progress: live and unfiltered, and captured at the very moment the university was being rebuilt.
"There have been so many extraordinary iterations of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers that some remarkable editions have tended to get overlooked. I think that's the case with the 1982 band...Strasbourg 82 shows that the Blakey bands never stopped pushing the envelope." - NPR
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