Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk
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American jazz saxophonist Robin Kenyatta meets German experimental pianist Wolfgang Dauner (who released the very first ECM record) on this underrated and somewhat out of place ECM classic. “Blues for your Mama” might just be the most traditionally funky track in the ECM catalog with Dauner’s swinging clavinet and aggressive piano playing that drives the tune into wild improvisation in classic Dauner style. The quartet configuration works incredibly well here with Kenyatta’s flute and sax floating gorgeously over Dauner and Norwegian doube bassist Arild Andersen and drummer Fred Braceful who hold down the groove but also stretch out plenty themselves.
Recommended – A2 Blues For Your Mama, B2 We’ll Be So Happy
A1 Girl From Martinique
A2 Blues For Your Mama
B1 Thank You Jesus
B2 We’ll Be So Happy
Bass – Arild Andersen
Clavinet [Hohner], Piano – Wolfgang Dauner
Design [Cover Design] – B & B Wojirsch
Drums – Fred Braceful
Engineer – Karl-Hermann Hinderer, Kurt Rapp
Flute, Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax], Percussion, Written-By [All Compositions Written By] – Robin Kenyatta
Producer – Manfred Eicher