ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS Just Coolin' (Blaue Note 2020 UK/EU 6-track vinyl LP pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Just Coolin' captures Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in a 1959 studio session that remained unreleased for decades, adding an important chapter to one of the great periods in the group’s history. Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s Hackensack studio on 8 March 1959, the session features a line-up of Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt — the same personnel heard soon after on At The Jazz Corner Of The World. This all-analogue edition was mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and presents the complete six-track session, including the previously unissued compositions “Quick Trick” and “Jimerick”. The performances have the directness, swing and precision that defined Blakey’s finest work, with the band moving easily between blues feeling, hard bop drive and a relaxed but exact sense of interplay. Picture sleeve, factory sealed. Recommended).