Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Olympia Concert - Sam LP

Re-mastered from the original mono master tapes. Cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Mastering. Vinyl pressed by Optimal in Germany. Tip-on deluxe gatefold sleeve with photos by Jean-Pierre leloir. Each records has been visually checked to prevent defects. 2 LPs-set.Recorded in Paris, November 22 and December 17, 1958.Original issues: LP Fontana 680.202 ML & EP Fontana 460.642 MR. ”I’ve never played for such an audience” declared Art Blakey in tears. lt was November 22nd, 1958, and he’d just come offstage after one of the “Jazz Wednesdays” concerts at the Paris Olympia. For a first appearance by the “Jazz Messengers”, they’d made quite an impression. Not content with pulling a huge crowd off the Boulevard des Capucines (the demand was so great that a second concert had to be staged on December 17th), they’d converted everybody to the “Hard Bop” religion in two sets where, united in a kind of exultant communion, jazzmen,  jazzophiles and curious bystanders alike had been crushed tog