Blakey, Art & Jazz Messengers: Moanin' (Vinyl LP)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. 1958's Moanin' - featuring the great drummer w/ trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, & bassist Jymie Merritt - was the perfect crystallization of the band's bluesy, soulful sound, & it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all-time. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook including Along Came Betty & Blues March. Moanin', Are You Real, Along Came Betty, The Drum Thunder Suite, Blues March, Come Rain or Come Shine