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How is it that one of Art Blakey's best recordings with the Jazz Messengers is so little known? The 1961 lineup of the Messengers included Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Bobby Timmons on piano, and Jymie Merritt on bass. This lineup, along with pianist Walter Davis Jr., who played on two tracks (“Roots & Herbs”, “United”), was responsible for “Roots & Herbs”, a brilliant collection of six Shorter compositions, including the driving hard bop of the title track, the playful “Ping Pong” and the sophisticated “United”. “Roots & Herbs” was released nine years after the recording sessions (1970) and definitely deserves a place among Blakey's best albums.
As part of the extremely popular “Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series” Universal Music Japan presents the sonically impressive remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for Blue Note US's analog reissues such as “Tone Poet” and “Classic Vinyl” – as a limited Japan only UHQCD with OBI stripe. The original recording sessions for “Roots & Herbs” took place on February 18 and May 27, 1961, at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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1. Ping Pong
2. Roots & Herbs
3. The Black Sliders
4. United
5. Look At The Birdie
6. Master Mind