Condition: Brand New Ships from: Melbourne

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• 2 LPs-set.

  Recorded in Paris, November 22 and December 17, 1958.

  Original issues: LP Fontana 680.202 ML & EP Fontana 460.642 MR.

  Ive never played for such an audience declared Art Blakey in tears. lt was November 22nd, 1958, and hed just come offstage after one of the Jazz Wednesdays concerts at the Paris Olympia. For a first appearance by the Jazz Messengers, theyd made quite an impression. Not content with pulling a huge crowd off the Boulevard des Capucines (the demand was so great that a second concert had to be staged on December 17th), theyd converted everybody to the Hard Bop religion in two sets where, united in a kind of exultant communion, jazzmen, jazzophiles and curious bystanders alike had been crushed together in high spirits, paying no attention to the presen