Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk

A truly spectacular pairing between drummer Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and the great Thelonious Monk. The album is presented in “Atlantic High Fidelity” and the first to featuring Monk recorded in stereo. “I think that this collaboration of Art Blakey’s group and Thelonious Monk dramatizes important events in jazz in the late 1950’s for, although each man has been heard from for years, each has recently been listened to more attentively than ever before, and each is a man in whose work we see jazz doing what it must do as a music with an identity of its own – finding, not borrowing, its way by developing the implicit possibilities in the materials which are its substance.” – Martin Williams

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