Label: DOL
Reissued 2020, Originally released 1959
Blakey's most successful LP gave listeners Bobby Timmons' "Moanin'" and Benny Golson's "Along Came Betty" and "Blues March" - tunes so powerful that Blakey played them almost every night for the next 30 years! This beautifully performed and recorded session made the Jazz Messengers a jazz institution
Track listing:
- Warm-Up and Dialogue Between Lee and Rudy
- Moanin'
- Are You Real?
- Along Came Betty
- The Drum Thunder Suite: First Theme - Drum Thunder/Second Theme - Cry a Blue Tear/Third Theme - Harlem's Disciples
- Blues March
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Moanin' (Alternate Take)