Mercury Records Collection: Limelight LS-86001: 'S Make It

LS-86001: 'S Make It / Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers

Label Type :	green Limelight promotional
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	LSP 86001-A- L1 RR
	SIDE-B	LSP 86001-B- L1 II RR

Comments

Equivalent release: Limelight LM-82001 (mono).

original gatefold cover with original booklet.

promotional copy (for broadcast)

Inside The Groove

Jazz Messenger's first title on Limelight label.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

This lineup was formed just after Wayne Shorter's quit. We can also see these members on “Jazz 625” video, recorded/filmed in March 7, 1965, London. Interestingly though, the Messengers with these members recorded (except above film) only one album - “'S Make It”.

The loss of Wayne Shorter, musical director and great tenor player, had changed the way Jazz Messengers dig. Here, we can hear Mr. Blakey's drums which sounds not unlike Blakey's. But the nice and inevitable exception is A-2: his tam/brush works, his own triple-time approach, sound like nobody else does. It's great as always.

The core member who contributed this album is Lee Morgan. His clear, brilliant tone is great among all tunes. Curtis Fuller also digs fine. The piano player John Hicks sounds like “little Bobby Timmons with a intelligent flavour”, and his compositions are also fine. John Gilmore, maybe famous on his co-leader album (with Clif Jordan) “Blowing In From Chicago” (Blue Note 1549), plays rather dull here.

This album shows, unfortunately, that Messengers is leaving their highest peak.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	2-31707	Faith (From The Broadway Musical “I Had A Ball”) (J. Lawrence - S. Freeman)	3:42
A-2	2-31705	'S Make It (L. Morgan)	5:38
A-3	2-31704	Waltz For Ruth (J. Hicks)	5:44
A-4	2-31710	One For Gamal (L. Morgan)	3:38
SIDE-B
B-1	2-31708	Little Hughie (C. Fuller)	5:33
B-2	2-31709	Olympia (J. Hicks)	5:48
B-3	2-31706	Lament For Stacy (L. Morgan)	5:35

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Lee Morgan (tp), Curtis Dubios Fuller (tb), John Gilmore (ts),
John Hicks (p), Victor Sproles (b). Art Blakey (ds),

Produced by Jack Tracy.

Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, CA on November 15, 16 and 25, 1964.

The Artist Also Appears on...

Art Blakey (ds) :

EmArcy MG-26030 10-inch : Blakey Featuring Art Blakey
Limelight LM-82001 / LS-86001 : 'S Make It
Limelight LM-82018 / LS-86018 : Soulfinger
Limelight LM-82034 / LS-86034 : Buttercorn Lady
Limelight LM-82038 / LS-86038 : Hold On, I'm Coming

EmArcy MG-26046 10-inch : Introducing Joe Gordon
EmArcy MG-36007 : Clark Terry
EmArcy MG-36025 : Introducing Joe Gordon
EmArcy MG-36071 : The Jazz Giants Vol.3 - Drum Role
EmArcy MG-36093 : The Jazz School / Various Artists (reissue of MGW-60002)
Mercury MG C-112 : Illinois Jacquet Collates
Mercury MG C-129 : Illinois Jacquet Collates, No.2
Limelight LM-82002 / LS-86002 : I/We Had A Ball / Various Artists
Wing MGW-60002 : The Jazz School / Various Artists

Jackets

Front	Back

Labels

Side A	Side B