Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Caravan / Keepnews Collection

2007 Cd reissue.

There have been innumerable impressive editions of the Messengers (any chronological list of Blakey’s stars-to-be sidemen would take far more space than is available here). But it would be hard to find a more awesome lineup–in terms of both their strength together and their later achievements–than this early-Sixties unit: Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Curtis Fuller.