Jazz Icons Art Blakey Live in 65 (2009)

Jazz Icons Art Blakey boasts an exceptional onehour concert by Art Blakey from Paris in 1965 This performance showcases one of the few undocumented Blakey bands the New Jazzmen featuring the incomparable Freddie Hubbard on trumpet as well as Jaki Byard on piano Reggie Workman on bass Nathan Davis on sax and of course Art Blakey on drumstruly a powerhouse quintet Freddie Hubbards incendiary playing on Blue Moon and the blistering 24minute version of his own Crisis serves as a cogent reminder that he was one of the most innovative trumpeters in jazz history Setlist The Hub Blue Moon Crisis NY Theme