Free for All (album)

Free for All
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1965
RecordedFebruary 10, 1964
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
GenrePost-bop
Length36:47
LabelBlue Note
BST 84170
ProducerAlfred Lion
Art Blakey chronology
A Jazz Message
(1963)
Free for All
(1965)
Kyoto
(1966)
The Jazz Messengers chronology
Ugetsu
(1963)
Free for All
(1965)
Kyoto
(1966)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
DownBeat

Free for All is an Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, recorded in February 1964 and released on Blue Note Records in July 1965. It was originally titled Free Fall.

The Allmusic review by Al Campbell awards the album 4 stars and states, "This edition of the Jazz Messengers had been together since 1961 with a lineup that would be hard to beat: Freddie Hubbard on trumpet... Wayne Shorter on tenor sax, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Cedar Walton on piano, and Reggie Workman on bass. Shorter's title track is one of the finest moments in the Jazz Messengers' history."