The Big Beat

Album by Art Blakey & Max Roach & Elvin Jones & Philly Joe Jones

The Big Beat is a studio album by American jazz drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, released in 1960. The album is rooted in the hard bop tradition, characterised by driving swing rhythms, blues-inflected melodies and assertive horn arrangements, and it sits within Blakey's early 1960s output as part of the band's ongoing development of its distinctive group sound.
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  1. 1.
    Caravan
    9:44
  2. 2.
    The High Priest
    5:58
  3. 3.
    The Theme
    2:58
  4. 4.
    Conversation
    3:47
  5. 5.
    Jodie's Cha-Cha
    4:56
  6. 6.
    Larry-Larue
    5:11
  7. 7.
    Lady Luck
    6:21
  8. 8.
    Buzz-At
    6:28
  9. 9.
    Pretty Brown
    3:30
  10. 10.
    Six and Four
    4:59
  11. 11.
    Stablemates
    5:56
  12. 12.
    The Carioca ('El Tambores')
    4:29
  13. 13.
    Battery Blues
    4:05
  14. 14.
    Gone, Gone, Gone
    4:41
  15. 15.
    The Tribal Message
    2:51

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