Art Blakey: Ritual / Once Upon a Groove

Date:	Monday, February 11, 1957
Label/Number:	Pacific Jazz 402 / Blue Note LT 1065
Personnel:	Art Blakey (d) Bill Hardman (tp) Jackie McLean (as) Sam Dockery (p) Spanky De Brest (b)
Tracks:	Exhibit A / Scotch Blues / Wake Up / Ritual
Location:	Manhattan Towers, NYC
Producer:
Liner Notes:
Research Comments:	Same date as Jimmy Smith Blue Note session. Originally released on Pacific Jazz and later on Blue Note. Mike Fitzgerald deduced that this session, listed in Ruppli’s Blue Note Discography first edition as recorded in Los Angeles, must have been done at Manhattan Towers, as the date is the same as a Jimmy Smith session recorded there that included Blakey. In his second edition Ruppli says NYC.
Status Notes:	This session took place on the same date as another Rudy Van Gelder session.
Sources:	(BND) MFZ RU2