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85th Anniversary Treasures of Blue Note Series.
With OBI
Celebrating the finest Jazz since 1939 With the treasures of Blue Note Records on Limited Edition 180 gram Blue Color Vinyl Indie Record Store release.
Pressing is from the same mastering as the 80th Anniversary by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, all-analogue from the original master tape.

More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958’s Moanin’—featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt—was the perfect crystallization of the band’s bluesy, soulful sound, and it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all-time. Originally self-titled, the album was later renamed Moanin’ due to the popularity of Timmons’ unforgettable opening track. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook including “Along Came Betty” and “Blues March.”