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:  Mosaic (2023)

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument

Label:  Blue Note

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side 1:

 1.  Mosaic (8:13)

 2.  Down Under (5:29)

 3.  Children Of The Night (8:51)

Side 2:

 1.  Arabia (9:10)

 2.  Crisis (8:33)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums

Freddie Hubbard:  Trumpet

Curtis Fuller:  Trombone

Wayne Shorter:  Tenor Saxophone

Cedar Walton:  Piano

Jymie Merritt:  Bass

Mosaic is a studio album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, originally released on January, 1992 by Blue Note, remastered and reissued on October 20, 2023 by Blue Note.  Audiophile 180 Gram Vinyl.