Blakey's "S' Make it"

[Larry Kart]

Very short measure (c. 31 minutes) and the material is mostly routine gospel-tinged stuff, but this 1964 album is worth a listen because it's the only one of this enticing Messengers line-up (Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, John Gilmore, John Hicks, Victor Sproles), and because Lee (back for a while after three years on his own) is in bristling, loosey-goosey form, as is Fuller. Gilmore doesn't get much solo space but makes good use of it, and Sproles (I remember him from c. 1957 Chicago sessions) is striking in accompaniment and in his one solo. A shame that this band wasn't unleashed at length in RVG's studio for Blue Note or Impulse.

 

[soulpope]

Victor Sproles is a real force here - and he is well recorded too ....

[JSngry]

1 hour ago, Larry Kart said:

A shame that this band wasn't unleashed at length in RVG's studio for Blue Note or Impulse.

 

The Morgan/Fuller tandem was in place with the soon-to-be-departed Shorter, Walton & Workman for Indestructable. That's my favorite Blakey album.

 

[Larry Kart]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

The Morgan/Fuller tandem was in place with the soon-to-be-departed Shorter, Walton & Workman for Indestructable. That's my favorite Blakey album.

 

A favorite for me too, but that Limelight band was different -- not better, just DIFFERENT.

[JSngry]

All the Blakey Limelight albums had different lineups. I wonder if that was the beginning of his "shifting personnel" road band period.