A Jazz Message Explained

A Jazz Message
Type:	Album
Artist:	Art Blakey
Cover:	A Jazz Message.jpg
Released:	February 1964^[1]
Recorded:	July 16, 1963
Studio:	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	35:11
Label:	Impulse! A-45
Producer:	Bob Thiele
Prev Title:	Ugetsu
Prev Year:	1963
Next Title:	Free For All
Next Year:	1964

A Jazz Message is a jazz album recorded by Art Blakey's Quartet in 1964.^[2] The album was Blakey's second and last album for the Impulse! label.

Track listing

1. "Cafe" (Blakey, Stitt) – 5:37
2. "Just Knock On My Door" (Blakey, Stitt) – 7:00
3. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 4:42
4. "Blues Back" (Tyner) – 5:23
5. "Sunday" (Chester Conn, Nick Drake, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne) – 7:23
6. "The Song Is You" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 5:06

Personnel

• Art Blakey – drums
• Sonny Stitt – tenor saxophone (1, 3, 5), alto saxophone (2, 4, 6)
• McCoy Tyner – piano
• Art Davis – bass

Production notes:

• Bob Thiele – producer
• Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=M0UEAAAAMBAJ&dq=impulse+a-45&pg=PA29 Billboard Feb 22, 1964
2. Billboard, 19 Oct 1963, p. 11.