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, Jazz Instrument
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.

Artist:   Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
Title:   The Art Of Jazz  (2019)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument
Label:  In & Out Records
Rating:   *****

Format:   CD: 

Tracks:

 1.  Two Of A Kind (feat. Terence Blanchard)  (12:25)
 2.  Moanin' (feat. Brian Lynch)  (9:23)
 3.  Along Came Betty (feat. Freddy Hubbard & Benny Golson)  (7:44)
 4.  Lester Left Town (feat. Wayne Shorter & Walter Davis Jr.)  (7:09)
 5.  Mr. Blakey (feat. Michele Hendricks)  (5:20)
 6.  Drum Duo (feat. Roy Haynes)  (1:52)
 7 .  Blues March (feat. Curtis Fuller & Jacky McLean)  (15:50)
 8.  Buhaina's Valediction   (1:07)
 9.  Interview With Art Blakey  (12:49)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:   Drums

The Jazz Messengers:

Donald Harrison:   Alto Saxophone
Jovan Jackson:   Tenor Saxophone
Brian Lynch:  Trumpet
Frank Lacy:  Trombone
Geoff Keezer:  Piano

With Special Guests:

Wayne Shorter;  Tenor Saxophone
Benny Golson:  Tenor Saxophone
Jackie McLean:  Alto Saxophone
Freddie Hubbard:  Tenor Saxophone
Terence Blanchard:  Trumpet
Curtis Fuller:  Trombone
Walter Davis Jr. Piano
Buster Williams:  Bass
Roy Haynes:  Drums
Michele Hendricks:  Vocals

The Art Of Jazz is the celebration of Art Blakey's 70th Birthday Jubilee Concert, newly remastered, released on October 25, 2019 by In & Out Records, recorded the concert at the Leverkusen Jazz Festival was recorded for Broadcast on German Television Station ZDF, featuring special guests:  Wayne Shorter, Benny Golson, Jackie McLean, Freddie Hubbard, Terence Blanchard, Curtis Fuller, Walter Davis Jr., Buster Williams, Roy Haynes and Michele Hendricks.