Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers: Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 – (Limited Vinyl Edition 180g)

Contents

1. No Problem (1st version)
2. No Hay Problema
3. Prelude In Blue (à l’Esquinade)
4. Valmontana (1st version)
5. Miguel’s Party
6. Prelude In Blue (chez Miguel)
7. No Problem (2nd version)
8. Weehawken Mad Pad
9. Valmontana (2nd version)

Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (tracks 1, 4-9) Lee Morgan (trumpet); Barney Wilen (tenor saxophone); Bobby Timmons (piano); Jymie Merritt (bass)

Art Blakey and the Afrocuban Boys (track 2) Bobby Timmons (piano); Jymie Merritt (bass)

Art Blakey and Barney Wilen Quartet (track 3) Barney Wilen (soprano saxophone); Duke Jordan (piano); Jymie Merritt (bass

When French director Roger Vadim made his scandalous film “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” in 1959, he afforded himself the extraordinary luxury of having the film music recorded by two jazz legends: Thelonious Monk and Art Blakey. While Monk’s recordings were only released on a double album in 2017, Blakey’s were released as early as 1960 on the soundtrack album of the same name. Blakey can be heard here with three different but equally exciting ensembles – his Jazz Messengers, the Afrocuban Boys and the Barney Wilen Quartet – and lively hard bop originals and a Latin number from the pen of pianist Duke Jordan.

Music by Duke Jordan – Recorded in New York, July 28 and 29, 1959