Blakey, Art & The Jazz Messengers - Free for All You Fail Me (Redux

Blakey, Art & The Jazz Messengers - Free for All You Fail Me (ReduxFree for All is a 1964 jazz album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers released on Blue Note. Now, celebrating it's 50th anniversary, the album will be newly remastered for vinyl as part of the overall Blue Note 75th anniversary vinyl reissue campaign. It is the first of many to come. Blakey, the Jazz Messenger's leader and drummer, recorded Free for All with Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, recent Grammy winner Wayne Shorter on tenor sax, Curtis Fuller on

as a show of strength

Machine Gun Man

self-consciously thoughtful

4 The Last Time

from the glacial Amber chug of Overand to the Incunabula acid of Leterel

such that we can feel the surge of life itself passing over our bones as we hear the songs and sounds

I Mean To Shine finally sees the light of day and even features the proposed 1970 cover shot by Joel Brodsky (whose work at that time had already graced the covers of releases from The Doors

In celebration of the ten-year anniversary of this iconic album

Moses Sumney and Nine Inch Nails among others

"Making friends with the unknown

It was recorded in a single eight-hour session on April 7

these recordings showcase Cotton in two very different blues playing styles: stripped back acoustic blues