Art Blakey

Live In Paris '65

Sam Records

A precious glimpse of his undocumented New Jazzmen lineup, with Freddie Hubbard, Jaki Byard, Reggie Workman and Nathan Davis.
“Everywhere we’d go people would say, this is the best Jazz Messengers we’ve heard,” remembers Davis. “And because of the way Jaki would play and Reggie would go, it was like a semi-freedom thing… with Messengers heads, you know… but when we got to soloing…!”
It’s easy to take Freddie Hubbard for granted. One of the very greatest jazz trumpeters of all time; he kills it here. Check him on Blue Moon and the twenty-four-minute rendition of his own composition Crisis.