Jazz - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers; Hubbard; Marsalis torrent

Jazz - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers; Hubbard; Marsalis. (a bit)

In the '60s, when John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman were defining the concept of a jazz avant-garde, few knowledgeable observers would have guessed that in another 30 years the music's mainstream would virtually bypass their innovations, in favor of the hard bop style that free jazz had apparently supplanted. As it turned out, many listeners who had come to love jazz as a sophisticated manifestation of popular music were unable to accept the extreme esotericism of the avant-garde; their tastes were rooted in the core elements of "swing" and "blues," characteristics found in abundance in the music of the Jazz Messengers, the quintessential hard bop ensemble led by drummer Art Blakey. In the '60s, '70s, and '80s, when artists on the cutting edge were attempting to transform the music, Blakey continued to play in more or less the same bag he had since the '40s, when his cohorts included the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Fats Navarro. By the '80s, the evolving mainstream consensus had reached a point of overwhelming approval in regard to hard bop: this is what jazz is, and Art Blakey ? as its longest-lived and most eloquent exponent ? was its master. AMG

1955 At The Café Bohemia V.1 118mb
1955 At The Café Bohemia V.2 119mb
1960 Unforgettable Lee! LeeMorgan 138mb
1962 Freddie Hubbard - Here To Stay - Wayne Shorter 60.1mb
1980 Jazz Cafe At Bubba's w Wynton Marsalis 59.9mb
1981 Album Of The Year w Wynton Marsalis 78.1mb
Art Blakey (Ken Burns) 122mb
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.AMG.doc

Hopefully other people can provide more Jazz Messengers
And more Freddie Hubbard. (I have a lot of Wynton.)