Moanin’ (Blue Note Essentials): Vinyl LP 2025BF30% and adoring Japanese audiences were

and adoring Japanese audiences were enthralled by one of the band’s all-time great line-ups featuring the legendary drummer with Lee Morgan on trumpet

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Moanin’ (Blue Note Essentials): Vinyl LP 2025BF30% and adoring Japanese audiences wereMore than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958s Moanin featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt was the perfect crystallization of the bands bluesy, soulful sound, and it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all time. Originally self titled, the album was later renamed Moanin due to the