Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Strasbourg 82 2x LP

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Strasbourg 82

180g AAA Release

Double LP in Gatefold Sleeve With OBI Strip 

Release Date: 11th October 2025 (Art Blakey's Birthday)

Shipping: From w/c 20th October 

Pre-order now to own this superlative, previously unreleased gem before anybody else (will not be on general release until February 2026).

Every copy comes with a Gearbox Collection token. which allows you to benefit from the future success of this title.

1. Micro loyalty payment on the future success of the record (based off the break even on the record, a percentage of the profit is distributed back to you as a discount on future purchases via a loyalty cash credit in your digital wallet)

2. Art Blakey Postcard print by esteemed photographer, Val Wilmer.

3. Gearbox hosted AMA (Ask Me Anything) with members of Art Blakey's Jazz Messenger Band & Takashi Blakey

Side A

1 Little Man (Charles Fambrough) 13:04

2 Along Came Betty (Benny Golson) 09:27

Side B

1 Fuller Love (Bobby Watson) 09:13

2 Eighty One (Miles Davis) 14:26

Side C

1 I Can’t Get Started (Vernon Duke) 07:44

2 New York (Donald Brown) 14:01

Side D

1 I Didn’t Know What Time It Was 04:34

2 Blues March (Benny Golson) / Theme (Miles Davis) 08:39

3 Moanin’ (Bobby Timmons) 07:48

Credits:

Art Blakey; drums

Johnny O’Neal; piano

Donald Harrison; alto saxophone

Terence Blanchard; trumpet

Billy Pierce; tenor saxophone

Charles Fambrough: double bass

Recorded on 1st April 1982 in Strasbourg, France

Mastered by Caspar Sutton-Jones at Gearbox Records, London

Album artwork by Alan Foulkes

℗ & © Gearbox Records, 2025