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Today's Shelf Pull: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Moanin' (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)

The Room Starts Walking

Today's Shelf Pull: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Read Eamon Lane’s story from Kilmorna in Listowel, with the people, records, art or town life behind it.

Some records walk into a shop with a tune already halfway out the door.

Moanin' does not need much ceremony. It has a dark sleeve, a serious stare, red and white lettering across the top, and the sort of title that sounds like a complaint until the band turns it into a grin.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers are on the shelf today, and that is enough to make the morning behave differently.

Good. A Thursday can use drums with shoulders.

On the shelf today

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Moanin' (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)

LP / Jazz / 2024

EUR29.95 / Available now

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