A Jazz Message

A Jazz Message
Studio album by Art Blakey
Released	Feb 1964
Recorded	16 July 1963
Genre	Jazz
Length	35:11
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele
Art Blakey chronology
Ugetsu (1963) A Jazz Message (1964) Free For All (1964)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

A Jazz Message is a jazz album released by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1964.^[2] The album is Blakey's second and last album for Impulse! Records and is one of the only known collaborations between him and McCoy Tyner.

Track listing

1. "Cafe" (Art Blakey, Sonny Stitt) – 6:14
2. "Just Knock On My Door" (Blakey, Stitt) – 5:56
3. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 5:55
4. "Blues Back" (McCoy Tyner) – 6:30
5. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Nick Drake, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) – 7:21
6. "The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 5:06

Personnel

• Art Blakey – drums
• Art Davis – bass
• McCoy Tyner – piano
• Sonny Stitt – tenor saxophone

Production notes:

• Bob Thiele – producer
• Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

References

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ Billboard, 19 Oct 1963, p. 11.