LIVE AT MONTREUX AND NORTH SEA (VINYL)

In the summer of 1980, the jazz world bore witness to an
electrifying fusion of talent, rhythm, and soul as Art Blakey
and the Jazz Messengers Big Band took the stages of two iconic
European festivals: Montreux and North Sea. The Big Band
performers, next to Art Blakey on drums, consisted of a stellar
line-up with Bill Pierce, Bobby Watson, Valery Ponomarev,
James Williams, Charles Fambrough, Wynton Marsalis, Branford
Marsalis, Robin Eubanks, Kevin Eubanks and John Ramsey.
For the Marsalis brothers, Wynton and Branford, and also
Eubanks brothers Robin and Kevin these were their first ever
recordings of them together. Tracks include 'Minor Thesis', 'A
Wheel Within A Wheel', 'Bit A Bittadose' and two more compositions
serve as a testament to the power of improvisation.
Live At Montreux and North Sea includes liner-notes on the
back sleeve written by Robert (Bobby) Watson.