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Child’s Dance is an album by American drummer and bandleader Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label.

“After several years of few recordings, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers re-emerged with totally new personnel on this Prestige LP. The strongest performance is a quartet feature for the great trumpeter Woody Shaw on “I Can’t Get Started,” but the other three selections (which include such musicians as George Cables or John Hicks on keyboards, bassist Stanley Clarke and Ramon Morris on reeds) are also worth hearing and sound surprisingly “contemporary” for the time. An interesting set.” (Scott Yanow, AllMusic).

Track listing:
“C.C.” (Stanley Clarke) – 12:18
“Child’s Dance (Christian’s Song)” (Ramon Morris) – 7:40
“Song for a Lonely Woman” (Stanley Clarke) – 9:40
“I Can’t Get Started” (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 7:30

Recorded at Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs New Jersey on May 23 (track 3) and July 8 (tracks 1, 2 & 4), 1972

Personnel:
Art Blakey – drums
Woody Shaw – trumpet (tracks 1, 2 & 4)
Buddy Terry – soprano saxophone (track 3)
Ramon Morris – tenor saxophone (tracks 1 & 2), flute (track 3)
Manny Boyd – flute (track 2)
George Cables – piano, electric piano (tracks 1, 2 & 4)
John Hicks – electric piano (track 3)
Mickey Bass (track 3), Stanley Clarke (tracks 1, 2 & 4) – bass
Ray Mantilla (tracks 1, 2 & 4), Emanuel Rahim (track 3) – congas
Nathaniel Bettis, Richie “Pablo” Landrum, Sonny Morgan – percussion (track 3)

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Released: 1972
Recorded: May 23 and July 8, 1972
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Label: Prestige
PR 10076
Producer: Ozzie Cadena