''A Jazz Message'' is a jazz album recorded by

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 ...

's Quartet in 1964.''Billboard'', 19 Oct 1963, p. 11. The album was Blakey's second and last album for the

Impulse! Impulse! Records (occasionally styled as "¡mpulse! Records" and "¡!") is an American jazz record company and label established by Creed Taylor in 1960. John Coltrane was among Impulse!'s earliest signings. Thanks to consistent sales and positiv ...

label.

Track listing

#"Cafe" (Blakey, Stitt) – 5:37 #"Just Knock On My Door" (Blakey, Stitt) – 7:00 #" Summertime" ( George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 4:42 #"Blues Back" (Tyner) – 5:23 #"Sunday" ( Chester Conn, Nick Drake, Benny Krueger, Ned Miller,

Jule Styne Jule Styne (; born Julius Kerwin Stein; December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was an English-American songwriter and composer best known for a series of Broadway musicals, including several famous frequently-revived shows that also became s ...

) – 7:23 #"

The Song Is You "The Song Is You" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was written for their musical ''Music in the Air'' (1932) and sung in that show by Tullio Carminati. In the subsequent 1934 ...

" ( Jerome Kern,

Oscar Hammerstein II Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) director in the musical theater for almost 40 years. He won eight Ton ...

) – 5:06

Personnel

– drums *

Sonny Stitt Edward Hammond Boatner Jr. (February 2, 1924 – July 22, 1982), known professionally as Sonny Stitt, was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his ...

– tenor saxophone (1, 3, 5), alto saxophone (2, 4, 6) * McCoy Tyner – piano * Art Davis – bass Production notes: * Bob Thiele – producer * Rudy Van Gelder – engineer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jazz Message, A Art Blakey albums 1964 albums Impulse! Records albums Albums produced by Bob Thiele Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio