Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Blues March

[brasstringed]

This video is awesome, but I bet its as old as my grandparents

[MrNyansapo]

Art indeed!



[jazzuffe]

Totally genius, both Shorter and Morgan.

[jazzjanne1]

@jazzuffe I agree with You!

[meepmeepXroadrunner]

haha. the tape messed up right at the fall and it sounded weird.

but man I just wanted to see golson and blakey

[bislibamba]

u know i can start talking about hoe awesome and wonderful they are (cause their music is just immortal) but that would be worthless. no words can express their geniousness. so ill just shut up and listen.

[tubzinblu]

Wayne Shorter is killing it and at 1.37 he is just singing over the changes ... incredible !!!

[Anthraxxx90]

the best drummer of all time!

[walt7500]

Go Art Go!

[qwerty6517]

Did Jazz on the Tube send you here???

If they didn't you need to check this place out, it's awesome. The email you vid ever week!

[MegaCharlieDelta]

This is beyond music, art and performance! When heaven sounds like this... Without these great Artists music today would have been boring, I think. R-E-S-P-E-C-T!

[RoundMidnight111]

the best sax alive...sounds like cristal when you ear it live

[nels0nson]

i am learning with my school classs ^^ so happy

[Bumblebee38]

GREAT tune

1962 /63 in PARIS at the OLYMPIA

[spacitydrummer4JC]

This track is ballin'.

[Juewettb]

Love it! My favorite line up of the Jazz Messengers. Lee Morgan!!! What else can I say? So glad this is available for the world to enjoy!!

[ryan23791]

One of my favorite Jazz pieces ..Among the first I heard as a kid

[Apelock]

Liner notes credit the song to Benny Golson. Fernblicker is correct

[Fernblicker]

In my opinion Art Blakey didn't compose this song, it was the tenor sax player Benny Golson.

[TheloniousKeys781]

@Fernblicker that's not an opinion

[leftywilbury]

@TheloniousKeys781

it's not about opinion, mr golson penned this one as well as others played live by the messengers. i recommend tina brooks back to the tracks blue note lp, golson wrote all songs for this lp, a gem.

[TheloniousKeys781]

@leftywilbury I know. FernBlicker said that he was stating an opinion when he was actually just stating fact... So I wrote to him that his claim wasn't an opinion.

[Skiine]

Did Art Blakely compose this piece?

[LiftoffMusic]

"our father who art blakey"

say it one more time..

[vastusinternus]

Lee never ceases to amaze me. Why is the video cut off?!!!!

[exmxa]

What album it is?

[meddyo]

this is from the album "moanin' "

[d2theutchgold2]

This version isnt on moanin tho

[mattrmpt]

@d2theutchgold2

yeah it's live....not the studio...explaining how they are different...and not the same

[tehutimes1]

Thats cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Timbalero561]

This tune is so great because it's the blues over a kind of parade march feel and the most compelling thing is that neither one of these feels gets lost all throughout this tune. Both Wayne Shorter and Lee Morgan took very creative and bluesy solos. EXCELLENT!!!!!!

[lfmundy2002]

I only wished that Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers would have played for all of the military parades that I marched in when I was in the service.

[OTooleRules]

I love the original album, but god, wayne shorer is SO cool...fU#&! Can anyone explain why this tune is so compelling?

[harryshand]

It's something to do with the chords played on the 1234 beats. They seem to have a note that descends and bounces back up. It's almost discordant but works really well...if you catch my drift.

[whatever1234145]

As onlyjoetee said, the thing that makes you a great jazz musician is your ability to play with the band, go up and strut your stuff, then go back to playing with the band. This is especially true for instruments like the bass and the drums. Most of the great jazz musicians - Charles Mingus; John Coltrane; and, of course, Art Blakey - have shown their ability to weave throughout a song seemlessly.

[onlyjoetee]

See the great players always know when to be just a drummer and when to bring the fireworks and the difference inbetween. My favourite drummer of all Art Blakey.Loved the fact they used such small kits

[bossface009]

haha your british

[bjazzer795]

oh nice

[bjazzer795]

is brownie on trumpet?

[Waffen656]

lee morgan

[jerec576]

Brownie was dead long before the JM formed

[bjazzer795]

o cause i know he plays on a night in birdland

[jerec576]

looks like Lee Morgan too, and sounds like him :P

[bossface009]

no he wasnt he was a jazz messenger

[ufoiki]

I don't know much about this type of music, but it's definitely beautiful...I enjoy listening to it soooo much

[DVoggue]

Who's on Tenor?

[psyne000]

thats a young Mr. Shorter right there.

[FlpCrls]

Blakey - named Art for a reason. (2)

[mickeroni81]

Blakey - named Art for a reason.

[Percussionfish]

@mickeroni81 yes, as an abbreviation of his full name, Arthur, haha just messing, i agree mickeroni.

[rw5791]

whenever blakey released his latest album people would call it a work of art.

[campocat]

Hey Zack that is my line.

There must have been a radio show with this as the theme show because this tune is deep in my memory banks.

I think Blue Mitchel was on the original recording.

[bintangtheater]

Blues March, Moanin' and Night In Tunesia were some of the Blakey tunes I had to listen and practise to, according to my uncle, in order to become a real drummer. He was so right... His style and feel are timeless.

[krzynka1]

neither moanin' or night in tunisia are blakey's tunes ;). the first one was written by bobby timmons the second by dizzy gillespie

[krzynka1]

and blues march is by golson of course

[Ghtthomps]

There is a recorded version of this song with one change. In 1958, Benny Golson was on the tennor sax. The Album is "Moanin" on Bluenote. Benny is still going strong!

[jmsbk12345]

Jazz is THE music. Beautiful.

[TCELL24]

That's a Gretsch right there.

[shredrix]

all over place but all together at the same time, ...in other words ...goood stuff

[uguTeBceHaxyu]

Hi to all!!

[zorbazig]

Hi, could someone post the 1977 Montreux Jazz-Rock Summit version of "Blues March" ? The most incredible version I've heard ! It was at the end of the Festival, at about 5 a.m., just before the surise...(I was there)

[coolstruttin1]

scholars listen, argue, and become smarter; fools only listen to what they already think is 'truth,' when in fact there is no truth.

[Mcqball248]

you guys are fags just listen to the music

[jmotz3]

This music is amazing!!!!!!!!!

its funny, intuition

Intuition! its a real thing; otherwise, how can you play like these musicians?!?!

Jazz is intuition

[greendream5]

Yeah just watch the video and listen to the music , quit arguing like children

[frankiepace]

Everyone stop fighting and listen to the music.....

[djangonovo]

You loved this? Type: JAZZ IS MY RELIGION

Piet Kuiters Modern Jazz group, Amsterdam 1964.

Best regards Django.

[zack489]

Jazz is my religion.

[btodrums]

Back in my U.S. Navy band days, The great James Moody came to do a clinic for our Big Band in Japan. His advice to me as a youg drummer was this: "If you want to be a Real Jazz Drummer, You've GOT to listen to Blakey" He was so right!!! Long live Blakey...

[shire2005]

Blue's march is a benny golson tune that was actually recorded first by blue mitchell on his riverside debut album "big 6' with johnny griffin at tenor, wynton kelly at piano and philly joe jones, drums. A year later it was recorded for blakley's moanin album in which of course golson plays tenor.

A pedestrian start the song really heats up with some nice room for soloing. I love it..

[infamousdoink]

frits ia reeeaaalllyy lucky man,i would ve loved to f heard m play live.

true renegades,never wil the words performer and musician be put together as then.

it s all bein done and made easy for us.

true revolutionary music

[ryegi]

you gotta love this group! Art Blakey is the man! May Jesus bless his soul!

[Leondale]

and Buddha too!

[RahsaansBiggestFan]

^Wow, I was thinking of converting to Christianity, but you've changed my mind. Thanks.

[gluardo]

Bravo its people like him who makes te USA

"antipatiques" heureusement all the people are not like him "in France" and the jazzmen are very popular in my country:-)

[dreiffie1219]

not even jesus believed in forcing his beliefs upon others...you should think about the implications of your words. they matter

[8tinha]

"Wow, I was thinking of converting to Christianity, but you've changed my mind"... LOL!!!

I am atheist and I hope there's some hot beer in Hell.

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company" -Mark Twain-

[sisifo]

i'm italian boy. i went in drum's world linstening an old lp of abdullah ibn buaina:it would be nice if someone send me "infra-rae" with art.

[taterdickens]

One of the greatest hard bop drummers of all times and consistently filled his band with great musicians. I had the privledge of see ing Mr. Blakey several times at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco in the late 70's and no performance ever disappointed. Another American treasure and exponent of Black American Classical music.

[frits1939]

Never ever will there be Jazz music like this again!! They all where heroes,black or white bteiv676!!;Blakey,Miles,Monk,C­oltrane,C.Clarke,D.Gordon,Roll­ins,P.Chambers,M.Jackson,E.Jon­es,G.Mulligan,Z.Sims,D.Brubeck­,S.Getz,D.Gillespy etc etc etc (no space to mention all!).Respect and let them keep alive thrue these exeptional videos.....Thanks for putting the films on You Tube (Lucky, I have seen them almost all in concert!!)

[SpencerMA89]

Ah, but there is. 2911 Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh every Thursday night from 8 to 12

[Leondale]

hey SpencerMA89,

Why don't you record some of Dat Dere at 2911 Penn Ave, and upload a bit.

Let me know if you do!

I love to see it!

(almost like teleporting there!)

[fvswoll]

Ok,thats cool Spencer,but a bit far away from me;I'm from Holland/Europe..I gues it's a kickin'Jazz club!

[erickoechlin]

Thanks for postin a great video from the JM

[pvtheau]

Only Blakey can make a fantastic song out of something dull as a march. Incredible!

[padleynj]

Blakey always stuck with the tradition of having a "working band", please bteiv676 it's not just 'black' it's our music....

[YouLikeBosch]

I love this song.

[bteiv676]

It's not about the video quality...it's the about the artist's unfathomable quality of elegance...grace...and sophistication. All praise to Black American Classical Music.

[taterdickens]

Amen! I think it was Todd Barken, owner of the San Francisco jazz club, Keystone Korner, who coined this term. Why are African American jazz musicians more respected in Europe and Asia than they are in their own country? Pathetic!

[dreiffie1219]

killin lee morgan solo...love when he goes out an brings it back

[BlueTrane5]

lee's the man

[Gregorie7]

Hey Jazz Lovers, It is a honor to know that my dad played as side man Tenor Sax with Art in the early fifties, see more Video at myspace/gregorieka-for a actual missing link picture of Jazz great Musa Kaleeem sr, of course, I'm Kaleem II, his son!

[tunnelrat1900]

Never heard of Musa Kaleem. Then again, I'm sure a couple hundred million others haven't either.

[TONWITBERG]

DVD= Art Blakey"s Jazz Messengers Paris 1959

november 15, 1959 Theatre de Champs-Elysées, Paris with Lee Morgan tp Wayne Shorter ts Walter Davis Jr p Jymie Merritt b Art Blakey dr

[gluardo]

merci pour cette video, art blakey, lee morgan et les jazz messengers était considéré eb france comme les plus grands en 1962, Blue march était l'indicatif d'une émission de jazz qui passait sur la radio europe1 dans es années 60

[Gulnare2004]

I had the great fortune to see the Jazz Messengers around the same time as this performance sitting on the stage in the De Montford Hall Leicester England.

[phylmaker]

To get an idea of Blakey's leadership, taste and judgment, just look at the list of Messengers over the years. He was Thelonious Monk's favorite drummer; the other , being Billy Higgins.

[Sviiiden]

Recently played this tune in a swedish jazz club. Thumbs up!

[jukeboxjazz]

such a modern piece yet such crap quality of video. thanks for the post! such a goooood song!

[djazzy456]

I love this song! Wayne Shorter's solo is great.

[monkman42]

this may be my favorite song of their's... thanks for the post

[monkman42]

this may be my favorite song of there's... thanks for the post

[apostro]

WAS THER-  - -

[ignaciomoran]

That's a fast shuffle tempo for 'Blues March'. Wayne is killin' here. His use of motifs is extrardinary. Art's pushing that beat hard. What can you say about Lee Morgan?

[altosaxbeboper09]

what is the name of this dvd

[jimmw]

This was the first Art Blakey classis I had ever heard and from there I was hooked. He was an awesome drummer and arranger.

[kgbworld]

me too dude. i first heard the messengers on a live cd from paris 1958 and blues march and moanin were all i needed and then that was that!

[Toolpusher]

This is why YouTube is great, so many people getting the chance to see this stuff!

[Bumblebee38]

GREAT GREAT GREAT

I saw them at the OLYMPIA in Paris in 1962 / 1963 .

At that time probably the best band around ?

Thank you .

[inthunder]

All stars, a shame the video has gone a bit, and is truncated. Billy Boy