This installment in the JAZZ ICONS series of memorable jazz performances captures a concert by percussionist Art Blakey recorded in 1965. The songs featured in the performances include "The Hub," "Blue Moon," "Crisis," and "NY Theme."
Although this budget-priced in-concert recording of Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers features minimal information, the music here speaks for itself. On LIVE, the legendary drummer/bandleader steers his ensemble through a potent set of tunes...
Full performer name: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey, Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Valery Ponomarev, Donald Harrison, Branford Marsalis, Bobby Watson, Bill Pierce, David Schnitter, Jea...
Personnel: Art Blakey (drums); Thelonious Monk (piano); Johnny Griffin (tenor saxophone); Bill Hardman (trumpet); Spanky DeBrest (bass).Includes liner notes by Martin Williams and Nat Hentoff.All tracks have been digitally remastered....
Personnel: Art Blakey (drums); Thelonious Monk (piano); Johnny Griffin (tenor saxophone); Bill Hardman (trumpet); Spanky DeBrest (bass).Includes liner notes by Martin Williams and Nat Hentoff.All tracks have been digitally remastered....
Full performer name: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers.Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey (drums); Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone); Lee Morgan (trumpet); Curtis Fuller (trombone); Bobby Timmons (piano); Jymie Merritt (bass)....
& The Jazz Messengers.BLAKEY'S BEAT contains 2 LPs on 1 CD: IN THIS KORNER (1978)/STRAIGHT AHEAD (1981).Personnel: Art Blakey (drums); Bobby Watson (alto saxophone); David Schnitzer, Bill Pierce (tenor saxophone); Valery Ponomarev (tr...
Jazz Messengers: Benny Golson (saxophone); Terence Blanchard (trumpet) Curtis Fuller (trombone); Geoff Keezer (piano); Peter Washington (bass); Lewis Nash (drums).Recorded live at the Iridium, New York, New York on November 7-9, 1997. In...
Originally released in 1993 on Japan's King label, one of the founding fathers of hard bop is celebrated by the presence of trombonist Robin Eubanks, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, trumpeter Brian Lynch, pianist Geoff Keezer, and bassist...
Cedar Walton Sextet: Cedar Walton (piano); Lou Donaldson (alto saxophone); Javon Jackson (tenor saxophone); Philip Harper (trumpet); Steve Turre (trombone); David Williams (bass); Billy Higgins (drums).Producers: Shigeyuki Kawashima, Hor...
Drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers was a kind of hothouse for generations of successful jazz musicians, from Freddie Hubbard to Wynton Marsalis. While Blakey has been the subject of countless articles and a couple of biographies, he has r...
The story of the dynamic drummer Art Blakey, whose career spanned over 50 years, is also a history of jazz in the second half of the 20th century. Blakey played with most of the major jazz figures of his time, while his band, the Jazz Messe...