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:   Roots And Herbs (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)  (2020)

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument, Drum Jazz

Label:  Blue Note Records

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side 1:

 1.  Pig Pong  (7:06)

 2.  Roots And Herbs  (6:05)

 3.  The Back Sliders  (7:51)

Side 2:

 1.  United  (7:29)

 2.  Look At The Birdie  (6:45)

 3.  Master Mind  (6:55)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums

Lee Morgan:  Trumpet

Wayne Shorter:  Tenor Saxophone

Bobby Timmons:  Piano on Tracks:  1, 3, 5, 6

Walter Davis, Jr.:  Piano on Tracks:  2, 4

Jymie Merritt:  Double Bass

Roots And Herbs is an album by Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers, originally released October 1970  by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued on September 10, 2020 by Blue Note Records, featuring Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, Walter Davis, Jr., and Jymie Merritt.  180 Gram Vinyl.