The Jazz Messengers (album)

This is the track listing for the current Columbia CD release. Tracks 1−7 are from the original LP and in the same order (Columbia CL 897, 1956). The adjacent tracks 8−10 and 12 were first released on Originally (Columbia FC 38036, 1982). Track 11 was previously unreleased. • "Infra-Rae" (Hank Mobley) - 6:57 • "Nica's Dream" (Horace Silver) - 11:51 • "It's You or No One" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 5:36 • "Ecaroh" (Silver) - 6:02 • "Carol's Interlude" (Mobley) - 5:36 • "The End of a Love Affair" (E.C. Redding) - 6:43 • "Hank's Symphony" (Mobley) - 4:37 • "Weird-O" (Mobley) - 7:06 • "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 2:52 • "Late Show" (Mobley) - 7:09 • "Deciphering the Message" (Mobley) - 6:29 • "Carol's Interlude (alternate take)" (Mobley) - 6:13 == Personnel ==

• Art Blakey, drums • Donald Byrd, trumpet • Hank Mobley, tenor saxophone • Horace Silver, piano • Doug Watkins, bass == Versions ==

• The Jazz Messengers (LP), Columbia, US, 1956 • The Jazz Messengers (LP), Philips, Europe, 1956 • Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers (LP reissue) Columbia Jazz Odyssey Series, US, 1968 • The Jazz Messengers (LP reissue), Columbia, US, 1981 • The Jazz Messengers (CD, remastered), Columbia / Legacy, US and Europe, 1997 • The Jazz Messengers (2x 180 g LP reissue) Columbia / Pure Pleasure, US, 2011 • The Jazz Messengers (MC reissue) PolyGram Spain == References ==