Art Blakey

Artist:  Art Blakey
Birth Name:  Arthur Blakey
Born:  October 11, 1919.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died:  October 16, 1990 (Aged 71).  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop
Occupation:  Musician, Bandleader
Instruments:  Drums, Percussion

Art Blakey was an American Jazz Drummer and Bandleader.  He made a name for himself in the 1940s in the Big Bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine.  He worked with Bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.  In the mid-1950s Horace Silver and Art Blakey formed The Jazz Messengers.  He was inducted into the Down Beat jazz Hall Of Fame in 1981.  The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 and he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall Of Fame in 1991.

Title:  Freedom Rider  (1998)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop
Label:  Blue Note Records
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Tell It Like It Is  (7:56)
 2.  The Freedom Rider  (7:29)
 3.  El Toro  (6:23)
 4.  Petty Larceny  (6:16)
 5.  Blue Lace  (6:01)

Bonus Tracks:  

 6.  Uptight  (6:16)
 7.  Pisces  (6:56)
 8.  Blue Ching  (6:44)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums
Wayne Shorter:  Tenor Saxopbone
Lee Morgan:  Trumpet
Bobby Timmons:  Piano
Jymie Merritt:  Double Bass

Freedom Rider is an album by Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers, originally released on February 1964 by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued on January 19, 1998 by Blue Note Records, featuring Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt.