Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Not Yet is the album Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded in one day at Barigozzi Studio in Milan on March 19, 1988, released the same year by Soul Note. The front line was trumpeter Philip Harper, trombonist Robin Eubanks and tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson, with pianist Benny Green and bassist Peter Washington beside the leader's drums. This was a working edition of the band rather than a studio assembly. The same six had recorded in New York on November 12, 1987 for the album Blue Moon, and they were taped again at Sweet Basil in Greenwich Village on September 5, 1988.

The session was engineered by Giancarlo Barigozzi and produced by Giovanni Bonandrini, with mastering by Gennaro Carone and liner notes by Mike Hennessey. Seven pieces mix new material and songs from the standard repertoire. Kenji's Mood opens the record at more than nine and a half minutes, and the title track sits in the middle of the first half. The standards For Heaven's Sake and I'll Never Be The Same follow, and Uranus runs past nine minutes. The last two titles, Falling In Love With Love and Kelo, were already in the band's book: both had been recorded by this line-up four months earlier in New York for Blue Moon, and the Milan session gave them a second studio reading. The cover art is by Niridan and the photography by Mirko R. Boscolo.

This is the Soul Note CD 121105-2, the barcode Discogs lists for the album's 1988 CD issue.