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 Witch Doctor (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)  (2021)

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument

Label:  Blue Note Records

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side A:

 1.  The Witch Doctor  

 2.  Afrique

 3.  Those Who Sit And Wait

Side B:

 1.  A Little Busy

 2.  Joelle

 3.  Lost And Found 

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums

Lee Morgan:  Trumpet

Wayne Shorter:  Tenor Saxophone

Bobby Timmons:  Piano

Jymie Merritt:  Bass

The Witch Doctor is the remastered and reissued from the Original Analog Tapes of  Blue Note Tone Poet Series by Miles Davis, released on June 4, 2021 by Blue Note Records, featuring Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, Jymie Merritt.