The Freedom Rider
Studio album by
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
ReleasedFebruary 1964[1]
RecordedFebruary 12, 18 and May 27, 1961
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
GenreJazz
Length54:01 (CD reissue)
LabelBlue Note Records
ProducerAlfred Lion
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers chronology
Pisces
(1961) 		The Freedom Rider
(1964) 		Roots & Herbs
(1961)
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Allmusic [2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

The Freedom Rider is an album by jazz drummer Art Blakey and his group the Jazz Messengers, recorded in 1961 and released in 1964 by Blue Note Records. Continuing Blakey's distinct brand of hard bop, this album features compositions from Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Blakey himself, and Kenny Dorham, a former Jazz Messenger. This was the final album by this particular edition of the Jazz Messengers, who had been together for 18 months, as Lee Morgan left after this album and was replaced by Freddie Hubbard.

Track listing

  1. "Tell It Like It Is" (Shorter) – 7:53
  2. "The Freedom Rider" (Blakey) – 7:25
  3. "El Toro" (Shorter) – 6:20
  4. "Petty Larceny" (Morgan) – 6:14
  5. "Blue Lace" (Morgan) – 5:59

Bonus tracks on CD reissue:

  2. "Uptight" (Morgan) – 6:12
  3. "Pisces" (Morgan) – 6:52
  4. "Blue Ching" (Kenny Dorham) – 6:43

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Liner notes by Michael Cuscuna to 2015 Japanese SHM-CD reissue
  2. ^ The Freedom Rider at AllMusic
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 25. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
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