Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / Child's Dance

AllMusic Review by Scott Yanow

After several years of few recordings, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers re-emerged with totally new personnel on this Prestige LP. The strongest performance is a quartet feature for the great trumpeter Woody Shaw on "I Can't Get Started," but the other three selections (which include such musicians as George Cables or John Hicks on keyboards, bassist Stanley Clarke and Ramon Morris on reeds) are also worth hearing and sound surprisingly "contemporary" for the time. An interesting set.

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Child's Dance



Child's Dance is an album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label.^[1][2]



Prestige Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 28 & May 25 (B1)

Track listing

All compositions by Stanley Clarke except where noted.

A1 C.C. (Stanley Clarke) A2 Child's Dance (Christian's Song) (Ramon Morris) 12:17 B1 Song for a Lonely Woman (Clarke) 20:02 B2 I Can't Get Started (Gershwin, Duke) 29:46

Personnel 

• Art Blakey – drums
• Woody Shaw – trumpet (tracks 1, 2 & 4)
• Buddy Terry – soprano saxophone (track 3)
• Ramon Morris – tenor saxophone (tracks 1 & 2), flute (track 3)
• Manny Boyd - flute (track 2)
• George Cables – piano, electric piano (tracks 1, 2 & 4)
• John Hicks – electric piano (track 3)
• Mickey Bass (track 3), Stanley Clarke (tracks 1, 2 & 4) – bass
• Ray Mantilla (tracks 1, 2 & 4), Emanuel Rahim (track 3) – congas
• Nathaniel Bettis, Richie "Pablo" Landrum, Sonny Morgan – percussion (track 3)

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