Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Holland 1958-Newport 1959 [New CD]

2-CD SET Plus 7 BONUS TRACKSPresented here are two complete rare concerts by one of the best formations of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, with Lee Morgan on trumpet, Benny Golson and Hank Mobley alternating on tenor sax, Bobby Timmons on piano, Jymie Merritt on bass, and the leader on drums. The group with Golson lasted for less than a year and produced very few recordings. Mobley’s 1959 stint with the group lasted even less, as he was soon replaced by Wayne Shorter. The concert on CD1, recorded in Scheveningen, Holland in 1958, and featuring Golson, was only previously available on a long out of print Japanese edition released 20 years ago. The Newport ’59 set with Mobley which opens CD2, on the other hand, has never been issued before!This release is completed with all of the existing music from the Messengers’ (with Golson) performances at Paris’ Olympia Theatre in 1958, during the same tour that produced the Dutch concert.ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERSART BLAKEY, drums & leaderLEE MORGAN, trumpetBENNY GOLSON, tenor sax (on CD1 & CD2, 5-8)HANK MOBLEY, tenor sax (on CD2, 1-4)BOBBY TIMMONS, pianoJYMIE MERRITT, bassCD1 [1-5]: HOLAND 1958. LONG UNAVAILABLE!Live at Kurhaus, Scheveningen, Den Haag, Holland, November 29, 1958.CD2 [1-4]: NEWPORT 1959. PREVIOUSLY UNISUED!Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 4, 1959.BONUS TRACKS:CD1 [6-8]: Live at the Olympia, Paris, France, November 22, 1958.CD2 [5-8]: Live at the Olympia, Paris, France, December 17, 1958.INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLETCD 1: Total Time: 73:0001 Moanin’02 Along Came Betty03 I Remember Clifford04 Whisper Not05 A Night In Tunisia06 Just By Myself07 I Remember Clifford #208 Are You Real?CD 2: Total Time: 77:3901 M&M02 Close Your Eyes03 Moanin’ #204 A Night In Tunisia #205 Moanin’ #306 Justice [Aka Evidence]07 Blues March08 Whisper Not #2