Moanin’ (Blue Note Essentials): Vinyl LP 2025BF30% Ife Ogunjobi

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The most iconic holiday record in Verve Records’ repertoire and one of the most successful jazz holiday albums of all time like you’ve never heard it before

CD 2 | The Demos / First Sessions Outtakes / First Sessions EP

and cut numerous classic sides including “Un Poco Loco” and “Bouncing with Bud

Wayne Henderson (trombone)

Moanin’ (Blue Note Essentials): Vinyl LP 2025BF30% Ife OgunjobiMore than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, 1958s Moanin featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt was the perfect crystallization of the bands bluesy, soulful sound, and it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all time. Originally self titled, the album was later renamed Moanin due to the