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 & The Jazz Messengers

Title:  The Big Beat (Blue Note Classic Series) (2021)

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument

Label:   Blue Note Records

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side A:

 1.  The Chess Players (9:31)

 2.  Sakeena's Vision (6:04)

 3.  Politely (6:04)

Side B:

 1.  Dat Dere (8:47)

 2.  Lester Left Town (6:26)

 3.  It's Only A Paper Moon (6:38)

Personnel: 

Art Blakey:  Drums

Lee Morgan:  Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Wayne Shorter:  Tenor Saxophone

Bobby Timmons:  Piano

Jymie Merritt:  Bass

The Big Beat is an album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, originally released in 1960 by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued on November 19, 2021 by Blue Note Records, featuring Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons and Jymie Merritt.