Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers - Blues March free for downloading

One more Benny Golson theme ... other masterpiece!

ONE OF THE SWINGINEST BE-BOP AND POST-BOP DRUMMERS THERE EVER WAS----PLUS HE NURTURED GENERATIONS OF NEW TALENT WITH THE MESSENGERS A TRUE ICON AND GENIUS, GOD BLESS HIM

This is just one of the many fine compositions by Benny Golson.

Art Blakey (Drums) Lee Morgan  (Trumpet) Benny Golson (Tenor saxophone)  Bobby Timmons (Piano)  Jymie Merritt (Bass) school/style of jazz: Hard Bop form: 12-bar blues Reason for inclusion: Nice combination of 12-bar blues played in march.

Art Blakey. This is culture.

The genius of Benny Golson, using the march meter to create a classic jazz tune. Benny Golson: Killer Joe, I Remember Clifford. And he's on sax.

I had a chance to see Benny Golson at Jazz Showcase in Chicago yesterday. He took time out from the performance to tell us the story of how this tune came to be. Golson was trying to address some of Art Blakey's frustrations by highlighting his drumming and felt the best way to do that was to channel some of the marching bands he'd seen in the south, particularly at Howard University, and pulling them into a song that allowed Blakey the playing time he was looking for. I think it worked.

Nobody seems to ‘understand’ this music...perhaps I am an anomaly amongst my peers. I hear something beautiful, wild, unleashed, and Free. That does it for me!

Blues March is a great tune played by a great bebop group. besides the drum intro, i especially like Benny Golson's work on the tenor sax.

I found after hearing an interview with Steve Jordan. He said when he was a kid his dad told him to learn the drums in this and he'd be able to play anything.

this makes fly my imagination