The KCCK Featured CD for August is “Just Coolin'” from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. In the fall of 1958, saxophonist Hank Mobley had returned to the band after the departure of Benny Golson. He would join trumpeter Lee Morgan on the front line, with bassist Jymiie Merritt and pianist Bobby Timmons rounding out the quintet. The ensemble entered Rudy Van Gelder’s Studio the following March to record a new album. Yet the results of the session remained unissued for sixty years. In 2020, it’s great to find more Morgan, Mobley and Timmons in their prime on the newly issued “Just Coolin'”! It’s on Blue Note Records. Purchase the CD.