Hard Drive (Art Blakey album)

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Hard Drive
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Studio album by
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
ReleasedEarly December 1957 [1]
RecordedOctober 9 & 11, 1957
StudioNew York City
Genre Jazz
Length38:51
Label Bethlehem
BCP 6023
Producer Lee Kraft
Art Blakey chronology
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
(1957)		Hard Drive
(1957)		 Art Blakey Big Band
(1957)
The Jazz Messengers chronology
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
(1957)		Hard Drive
(1957)		 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
(1958)

Hard Drive is an album by drummer Art Blakey with The Jazz Messengers recorded in late 1957 and originally released on the Bethlehem label. It is notable for constituting the first recorded use of the term 'hard drive' to refer to a computer memory drive. [2] [3]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "The music on this album is typical hard bop of the period, well played and full of enthusiasm and fire". [4]

Track listing

  1. "For Minors Only" (Jimmy Heath) - 5:49
  2. "Right Down Front" (Johnny Griffin) - 4:31
  3. "Deo-X" (Bill Hardman) - 5:50
  4. "Sweet Sakeena" (Hardman) - 5:06
  5. "For Miles and Miles" (Heath) - 5:24
  6. "Krafty" (Griffin) - 6:35
  7. "Late Spring" (Leon Mitchell) - 5:36

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Billboard Dec 23, 1957
  2. ↑ Art Blakey discography accessed June 5, 2013
  3. ↑ Art Blakey chronology accessed June 5, 2013
  4. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed June 5, 2013
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