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 Quintet

Title:  A Night At Birdland Vol. 2 (Limited Edition) (2015)

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument

Label:  Blue Note

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side 1:

 1.  Wee-Dot (7:19)

 2.  If I had You (3:31)

 3.  Quicksilver (Alternate Master) (8:46)

Side 2:

 1.  Now's The Time (9:02)

 2.  Confirmation (9:12)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums

Clifford Brown:  Trumpet

Lou Donaldson:  Alto Saxophone

Horace Silver:  Piano

Curley Russell:  Bass

A Night At Birdland Vol. 2  is a 1954 album by Art Blakey Quintet, originally released on October 1954 by Blue Note, remastered and reissued in 2015 by Blue Note and a part of the Blue Note 75 Anniversary Celebration the Label released 100 Essential Blue Note LPs and  by New York Time Readers.