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Free for All is a jazz album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers released on Blue Note. Recorded in February 1964, it was released the following year. It was originally titled Free Fall. [6]
Free for All by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey released in 1964. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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Of the several dozen studio albums recorded by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, none possess the sheer power and ferocious intensity of “Free for All”. Recorded on February 10, 1964, it marked the Messengers first recording for Blue Note in nearly two years, and its palpable energy made this studio recording sound like a live date.
Aug 23, 2013 · The celebrated recording captures a magic: an intense and joyful moment of serendipity for this 1961-64 edition of Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the band officially co-founded with Horace Silver in 1954.
Art Blakey is known as the frontman for "The Jazz Messengers" but originally it was the pianist "Horace Silver" but after Horace left the messengers in 1956, Art took over as leader and stayed with "The Jazz Messengers" to the end.
May 30, 2024 · Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Free for All was recorded in February 1964 and released in July 1965. Only four tracks were recorded, two per side. And yet the album is one of the hard-bop sextet's finest and most ambitious works. The band is firing on all cylinders.
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Free for all is easily one of the best Blakey albums, and should be in any jazz collection.
