Jazz / Hard Bop
Recorded: Jan 24, 1962, Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
This 1962 session, Blakey's best drum album, is a real fusion of jazz and African music, using drummers from Nigeria, Senegal, and Jamaica, with Solomon Ilori's vocals and Yusef Lateef's reeds.
Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff.
Art Blakey - drums, tympani, telegraph drum, gong
Solomon Ilori - vocals, penny whistle, talking drum
Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute, oboe, cow horn, thumb piano
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - bass
Curtis Fuller - tympani
Chief Bey - congas, telegraph drum, double gong
Robert Crowder - congas, bata drum
Garvin Masseaux - congas, chekere, African maracas
James Ola Folami - congas
Montego Joe - bambara drum, corboro drum, log drum, double gong |
