Performer: Art Blakey Quartet
Genre: Jazz
Album: A Jazz Message
Style: Hard Bop
MP3 version ZIP size: 1509 mb
FLAC version RAR size: 1165 mb
WMA version ZIP size: 1744 mb
Rating: 4.6
Votes: 711
Other Formats: WMA VQF MMF MOD MP3 TTA ADX

Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Cafe Written-By – Art Blakey, Sonny Stitt	5:33
2	Just Knock On My Door Written-By – Art Blakey, Sonny Stitt	6:55
3	Summertime Written-By – Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin	4:38
4	Blues Back Written-By – McCoy Tyner	5:19
5	Sunday Written-By – Bennie Krueger, Chester Conn, Jule Styne, Ned Miller	7:20
6	The Song Is You Written-By – Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II	5:06

Companies, etc.

• Designed At – Viceroy
• Manufactured By – EDC, Germany – 51009809

Credits

• Art Direction – Hollis King
• Bass – Art Davis
• Design [Cover] – Robert Flynn
• Design [Graphic] – Edward ODowd
• Drums – Art Blakey
• Engineer [Recording] – Rudy Van Gelder
• Other [Special Thanks] – John "Thight End" Vanhala
• Photography By – Bob Ghiraldini
• Piano – McCoy Tyner
• Producer [Original Recording] – Bob Thiele
• Reissue Producer – Michael Cuscuna
• Remastered By – Erick Labson
• Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Sonny Stitt (tracks: 2, 4, 6)

Notes

Recorded at Van Gelder Recording Studio, Engelwood Cliffs, New Jersey on July 16, 1963.
Remastered at MCA Studios using 20-Bit Super Mapping.
Originally issued as Impulse AS-45.

A tune entitled "Art's Sunday Best" was recorded at this session, but no master tape of this performance has survived.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 7 31454 79642 2
• Label Code: LC00236
• Matrix / Runout: 07314 547 964-2 02 * 51009809
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI LV26
• Mould SID Code: IFPI 0114

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
A-45	Art Blakey Quartet	A Jazz Message ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Impulse!	A-45	US	1964
AS-45	Art Blakey Quartet	A Jazz Message ‎(LP, Album, RP)	Impulse!	AS-45	US	1968
314 547 964-2	Art Blakey Quartet	A Jazz Message ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, Dig)	Impulse!	314 547 964-2	US	1999
AS-45	Art Blakey Quartet	A Jazz Message ‎(LP, Album)	Impulse!	AS-45	US	1964
SH 3026	Art Blakey Quartet	A Jazz Message ‎(LP, Album)	Impulse!	SH 3026	Japan	1964