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The Jazz Messengers were a jazz combo that existed for over thirty-five years beginning in the early 1950s as a collective, and ending when long-time leader and founding drummer Art Blakey died in 1990.
11 de oct. de 2023 · Art Blakey: How The Jazz Messenger Shaped The Future Of Jazz. Leading many musicians through his ‘Hard Bop Academy,’ Art Blakey was one of the most important jazz drummers in...
- Charles Waring
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Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He then worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s, Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group which he led for the next 35 years.
26 de oct. de 2021 · Tuesday, October 26, 2021. Drummer Art Blakey lived and breathed hard bop. He epitomised the music’s snapping, pulsating drive with each beat from his kit. Yet his vision extended way beyond the technicalities of playing, as his band The Jazz Messengers became an institution.
It was in the late ’40s that Art formed his first Jazz Messengers band, a 17-piece big band. After a brief gig with Buddy DeFranco, in 1954 Art met up with pianist Horace Silver, altoist Lou Donaldson, trumpeter Clifford Brown, and bassist Curly Russell and recorded “live” at Birdland for Blue Note Records.
12 de oct. de 2021 · Durante 35 años lideró la banda más importante de hard bop " Jazz Messengers", en un subgénero que lo tuvo como una figura fundacional. Este viernes 11 de octubre se cumple un nuevo aniversario del nacimiento de un legendario baterista como lo fue Art Blakey, fundador de los inmortales Jazz Messengers y uno de los músicos más originales del jazz.
Art Blakey Big Band (also called Art Blakey's Big Band and Art Blakey and his Drivin' Big Band) is an album by drummer Art Blakey recorded in late 1957 and originally released on the Bethlehem label. [2] [3] It differs from typical Art Blakey releases as his regular quintet was expanded to form a big band for these arrangements.
