1958 – Paris Olympia

May 2025 Olympia Concert Live album Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - Olympia Concert (Fontana.1959).jpg 1959 November 22 and December 17, 1958 L'Olympia, Paris, France Jazz 56:20 Fontana (France)680 202 ML Art Blakey Holiday for Skins 1958 Des Femmes Disparaissent 1958 The Jazz Messengers Live Moanin' 1958 1958 – Paris Olympia 1958 Des Femmes Disparaissent 1958 European 1987 CD cover 1958 - Paris Olympia.jpg 1958 – Paris Olympia is a live album by drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recorded at the Olympia in late 1958 and originally released in 1959 on the French Fontana label as Olympia Concert.Art Blakey discography accessed June 26, 2013Art Blakey chronology accessed June 26, 2013277041 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers – Olympia Concert Soon reissued versions had several different covers and were also released titled Soul! (1965). In the US it was first issued on Epic in 1960 under the title Paris Concert. Behind the Iron Curtain the album was issued on the East German label Amiga in 1976 titled simply Art Blakey and His Jazz-Messengers.See 2140700. The first digital release on CD in 1987 added two tunes from the same two concert dates, that were originally issued by Fontana on a 7" single (460 642 TE), "Blues March" and "Whisper Not".See 382112 Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers – Blues March / Whisper Not. Reception Allmusic 3 5 DownBeat 3.5 5Lange Art July 1988 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/DownBeat/80s/88/Down-Beat-1988-07.pdf DownBeat 40 https://web.archive.org/web/20230131054956/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/DownBeat/80s/88/Down-Beat-1988-07.pdf 31 January 2023 9 April 2023 The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings 3 4 Cook Richard Richard Cook (journalist) Brian Morton Brian Morton (Scottish writer) The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings 9th The Penguin Guide to Jazz 2008 Penguin London 978-0-14-103401-0 133 Scott Yanow of Allmusic called it "Hard bop at its best, all of it propelled by the powerful drumming of Art Blakey".Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed June 26, 2013 Track listing All compositions by Benny Golson except where indicated. "Just by Myself" – 4:35 "I Remember Clifford" – 5:36 "Are You Real" – 10:17 "Moanin'" (Bobby Timmons) – 13:38 "Justice" (Thelonious Monk) – 9:17 "Blues March" – 5:46 "Whisper Not" – 7:11 Personnel Art Blakey – drums Lee Morgan – trumpet Benny Golson – tenor saxophone Bobby Timmons – piano Jymie Merritt – bass References Category:Art Blakey live albums Category:The Jazz Messengers live albums Category:1958 live albums Category:Albums recorded at the Olympia (Paris) Category:Fontana Records live albums