The Big Beat (studio album) by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

The Big Beat by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Year: 1960
Overall rank: 6,090th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 63 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 20 albums of 1960 (17th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (476th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,090th)
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers bestography

The Big Beat is ranked 5th best out of 48 albums by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers is Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers which is ranked number 501 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,559.

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 63 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.0/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.

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From 10/17/2022 18:39
Really excellent, should be ranked way higher
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From 04/07/2022 18:07
Belongs to the Jazz Canon. Excellent balance. sound and song constructions.
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90/100
From 07/02/2020 03:59
The awesome power of the fully operational Messengers on display on this killer album. Lee Morgan had become an uncontainable monster by this point and is just ridiculously good here. The songwriting of Shorter and Timmons makes this one of the best Messengers albums to my ears; the tempos and the energy, the whole album is just right in the pocket.
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