Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Big Band - Live At Montreux And North Sea Artist_Campanella finds him playing freely

finds him playing freely

In February 2023

This reissue commemorates its enduring legacy

"Somebody Else"

Twisting time and space but never forcing the groove

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Big Band - Live At Montreux And North Sea Artist_Campanella finds him playing freelyIn the summer of 1980, the jazz world bore witness to an electrifying fusion of talent, rhythm, and soul as Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Big Band took the stages of two iconic European festivals: Montreux and North Sea. The Big Band performers, next to Art Blakey on drums, consisted of a stellar line up with Bill Pierce, Bobby Watson, Valery Ponomarev, James Williams, Charles Fambrough, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Robin Eubanks, Kevin