Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Ugetsu on LP

The place was a Broadway cellar that, with characteristic and not very exaggerated swagger, proclaimed itself "The Jazz Corner of the World." The date was mid-June 1963, when the New York post-bop era was still very much in progress. The bandleader was Art Blakey, then - as he continued to be for over two decades - celebrated as a developer of major new talent (the young lineup on this occasion included the likes of Freddie Hubbard and Wayne Shorter). The result, the Jazz Messengers album, Ugetsu, remains a swinging pleasure and a reaffirmation of the belief that this kind of on-the-scene adventure can create some of the most effective recorded jazz. 

Art Blakey (drums)

Freddie Hubbard (trumpet)

Curtis Fuller (trombone)

Wayne Shorter (saxophone)

Cedar Walton (piano)

Reggie Workman (bass)

1. One by One

2. Ugetsu

3. Time Off

4. Ping-Pong

5. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

6. On the Ginza