Caravan

Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Caravan on LP

Art Blakey's legendary Jazz Messengers recorded for numerous labels large and small during their 35 years of its existence. Few periods in the band's storied history were as inspired as its 1962-63 stint at Riverside, when the Messengers were a sextet with the incredible Freddie Hubbard-Curtis Fuller-Wayne Shorter front line and Cedar Walton-Reggie Workman-Blakey rhythm section. This was the Messengers' 1962 Riverside debut, and it attained instant classic status on the strength of its memorable Shorter and Hubbard compositions, great ballad features by Hubbard and Fuller, and a much-covered arrangement of the title track that features the leader at his most intense.

Art Blakey (drums)

Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone)

Freddie Hubbard (trumpet)

Curtis Fuller (trombone)

Reggie Workman (bass)

Cedar Walton (piano)

1. Caravan 

2. Sweet ’n’ Sour 

3. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning 

4. This Is For Albert 

5. Skylark 

6. Thermo