Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk

2008 release featuring the complete original 1957 album Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk plus bonus tracks. Although this album marks Thelonious Monk's sole recording as a member of Art Blakey's celebrated Jazz Messengers, the pianist and drummer were very close friends who understood each other well on both a personal and musical level. In fact, Blakey was present on both Monk's first and last studio sessions, spanning a period of 24 years from the 1947 quintet and trio recordings to the last sets taped in London in 1971, when Blakey and Monk were touring with the so-called Giants of Jazz. In fact, all of these recordings are true masterpieces in their own right. Essential Jazz Classics.