Moanin' LP fg_Catalog Number_B002208801 “It was a challenging process

“It was a challenging process

ranging from upbeat and lively to melancholic and introspective

How did Garson’s arrangement work for Arthur Prysock’s satiny body worship album This Is My Beloved transmogrify into the body-snatcher pulses of “This is My Beloved”

visceral proof that the dream is still alive

but in truth it's another incredibly fine record by a British artist who rarely strays from delivering incredibly fine records

Moanin' LP fg_Catalog Number_B002208801 “It was a challenging process1958s Moanin featuring the great drummer with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt was the perfect crystallization of the bands bluesy, soulful sound, and it still stands today as perhaps the most quintessential hard bop recording of all time. The album also introduced several indelible Golson compositions that would become standards of the jazz songbook including Along Came Betty and