Art Blakey & The Jazz Messangers - Buhaina

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messangers - Buhaina

Originally Released on Prestige - Reissued by ACE Records

Trying out a more seventies, soulful groove, with the likes of Woody Shaw, Carter Jefferson, Cedar Walton — and Jon Hendricks, who sings on the revival of Moanin’, and Along Came Betty.
Buhaina was Blakey’s name after his conversion to Islam. Of course A Chant For Bu was sampled by A Tribe Called Quest for their almighty Excursions. Altogether now: ‘Back in the days when I was a teenager / Before I had status and before I had a pager…

TrackListing:

1. Moanin'
2. A Chant For Bu
3. One For Trane
4. Mission Eternal
5. Along Came Betty
6. Gertrude's Bounce