{"product_id":"art-blakey-the-jazz-messengers-strasbourg-82","title":"ART BLAKEY \u0026 THE JAZZ MESSENGERS - STRASBOURG '82","description":"\u003cp\u003eCut 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.\u003cbr\u003eAvailable on double LP in gatefold sleeve with obi strip: 12\"\/180g\/33rpm\/stereo\/AAA and double CD in gatefold sleeve with separate booklet and obi strip.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResplendent with Gearbox's high- end production specifications, it comes as a premium, double 180g gatefold vinyl and double gatefold CD with obi strip, mastered in-house at their all-valve (vacuum tube) future-analogue studio in London.\u003cbr\u003eThe recording itself stands as the earliest full- length live document of the Terence Blanchard\/Donald Harrison edition of the Jazz Messengers - a unit that would define the band for the next few years and help power the Young Lions movement from revivalism into something deeper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 62, Blakey certainly was not mellowing with age. If anything, he was doubling down on the mission. \u003cem\u003e\"You go to school to get your diploma,\"\u003c\/em\u003e he once said. \u003cem\u003e\"You come with me to get your education.\"\u003c\/em\u003e Strasbourg 82 is that education in progress: live and unfiltered, and captured at the very moment the university was being rebuilt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArt Blakey:\u003c\/strong\u003e drums\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohnny O'Neal:\u003c\/strong\u003e piano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDonald Harrison:\u003c\/strong\u003e alto saxophone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTerence Blanchard:\u003c\/strong\u003e trumpet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBilly Pierce:\u003c\/strong\u003e tenor saxophone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCharles Fambrough: \u003c\/strong\u003edouble bass\u003cbr\u003eRecorded on 1st April 1982 in Strasbourg, France\u003cbr\u003eMastered by \u003cstrong\u003eCaspar Sutton-Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e at Gearbox Records, London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A revelation in the crispness of it's fidelity and dynamics of the group's performance with a 62-year old Blakey defying his age by rumbling through such classics as \"Along Came Betty\" and \"Moaning\" as well as an interesting run through Miles Davis' \"EightyOne\" that really allows the new blood to shine.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDownbeat Magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- NPR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GEARBOX","offers":[{"title":"2CD","offer_id":57082288472408,"sku":"TKM-34667","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"2LP","offer_id":57082288505176,"sku":"TKM-34668","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4266\/0184\/files\/894328490a7f736eeca244b969afa05d.jpg?v=1775816455","url":"https:\/\/truckmusic.store\/products\/art-blakey-the-jazz-messengers-strasbourg-82","provider":"Truck","version":"1.0","type":"link"}