S Make It (slang for 'Let's go') is a recording by the hard bop

Art Blakey Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1 ...

jazz ensemble. It was recorded in Los Angeles in 1964 and issued on the Limelight label.Matsubayashi, K
Mercury Records Collection: LS-86001: 'S Make It / Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
accessed January 22, 2018 Following the departure of stars from his 1961 to 1964 band,

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and

Cedar Walton Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. (January 17, 1934 – August 19, 2013) was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, before establishing a long career as a bandleader and com ...

, it includes previous Blakey alumni and newer players. This was trombonist

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's last recording as a regular member of the group, though he would return to record sporadically with Blakey in the 1970s and 80s. The album was re-released on

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in 2004.

Reception

Jeffery S. McMillan has called the release one of Blakey's most underrated works and that it exemplifies his 1964–1965 work. In a review in the December 1965 issue of '' Black World'', the title track is described as "a diabolical concept, a dark image, invoking the innermost caverns of Manhattan." David Rickert calls the album "a fine Messengers album and a good example of the drummer's consistently satisfying work." Russ Musto referred to the release as a "return to a more soulful sound". Ken Dryden stated in his

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review that "It's a shame that this was the only recording by this particular lineup of the Jazz Messengers, as ohnGilmore's strong blowing complements Morgan very well".

Track listing

Personnel

Musicians

– drums *

Lee Morgan Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording on John Coltrane's '' Blue Train'' (1 ...

– trumpet *

– trombone *

John Gilmore John Gilmore may refer to: * John Gilmore (activist) (born 1955), co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Cygnus Solutions * John Gilmore (musician) (1931–1995), American jazz saxophonist * John Gilmore (representative) (1780–1845), ...

– tenor sax *

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– piano *

Victor Sproles Victor Sproles (November 18, 1927 in Chicago – May 13, 2005) was an American jazz bassist. Sproles worked in the 1950s with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan and appears on the Sun Ra recordings '' Super-Sonic Jazz'', '' Sound of Joy'' and '' Deep ...

– bass

Production

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– producer *Ken Druker – executive producer *Pete Romano – engineer *Dave Wiechman – engineer *Kip Smith – mixing *

Leonard Feather Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing. Biography Feather was born in London, England, into an u ...

– liner notes *

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– cover photo

References

Art Blakey albums The Jazz Messengers albums 1965 albums {{1960s-jazz-album-stub