Label: Blue Note
Release date: 23.01.2026

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Free For All was perhaps the band’s most potent album. Recorded in February 1964 the music bristled with the charged energy of the civil rights movement with a powerful sextet line-up featuring the great drummer with Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton & Reggie Workman. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.
Side A
1. Free For All
2. Hammer Head
Side B
1. The Core
2. Pensativa