It was the evening of 29 November 1958. On the stage of the Kurhaus in Scheveningen, Art Blakey grabbed the microphone to say, “I would like to take a moment and say good evening on behalf of the Jazz Messengers and myself.” Everyone present could feel that this was a concert that would go down in history. The crème de la crème of the jazz world was on stage that evening, their performance fallen into oblivion until this recording. (Fondamente)