BLAKEY ART/THREE BLIND MICE

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180 GRAM. HIGH DEFINITION PREMIUM VINYL PRESSING FOR SUPER FIDELILTY. DIRECT METAL MASTERING. THE SEXTET HEARD ON THREE BLIND MICE (UNITED ARTISTS UAJ 14002) FEATURED FREDDIE HUBBARD CURTIS FULLER WAYNE SHORTER AND CEDAR WALTON AND IS WIDELY REGARDED AS ONE OF THE FINEST FORMATIONS OF ART BLAKEYS LEGENDARY JAZZ MESSENGERS. IT BEGAN ITS RUN IN 1961 WITH THE LP MOSAIC. BY THAT TIME THE BASSIST WAS STILL JYMIE MERRITT WHO WOULD LATER LEAVE THE GROUP AND BE REPLACED BY REGGIE WORKMAN. THE BAND HAD FIRST TRIED TO RECORD THE ALBUM LIVE AT THE VILLAGE GATE IN NEW YORK ON AUGUST 17 1961. BUT SOMETHING MUST HAVE GONE WRONG FOR MOST OF THE MATERIAL TAPED THAT EVENING WAS REJECTED. THE SECOND STUDIO ALBUM BY THIS FORMATION OF THE BAND WAS BUHAINAS DELIGHT RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 28 1961. THEN COMES THE MARCH 18 1962 LIVE RECORDING AT THE RENAISSANCE CLUB IN HOLLYWOOD WHICH PRODUCED ALL OFTHE MUSIC FROM THREE BLIND MICE.