Jazz Messengers!!!!

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

(a) Black record with black, orange, and white center label. Impulse! Logo around circumfrance of label, with title reading, in black type, [ART BLAKEY / AND HIS JAZZ MESSENGERS]. Held in a white paper sleeve. (b) Cardboard album cover holding the album (a). Front cover is mostly black reading [!!!!!impulse!!!!! art blakey*!!!!!jazz messengers!!!!!] at the top in blue, orange, green, and purple, with a color image of Art Blakey playing the drums underneath. Signed in green marker is Art's signature, positioned on the image of himself. In the bottom right corner of the front, in white type, reads [* COURTESY OF BLUE NOTE RECORDS, INC.]. Impulse logo sticker in top right corner of front. Interior is off-white with black type. Interior left side is a large black-and-white depiction of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers playing instruments, with the song lists for each side of the album below in two columns.

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