Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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:   Les Laisons Dangereuses 1960 (2024)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument
Label:  Decca Records
Rating:  *****

Format:   LP

Tracks:

Side 1:

 1.  No Problem (1st Version) (7:22)
 2.  No Hay Problema (4:34)
 3.  Prelude In Blue (a "L'Esquinade") (6:57)
 4.  Valmontana (1st Version) (4:45)

Side 2:

 5.  Miguel's Party (4:22)
 6.  Prelude In Blue (Chez Miguel) (5:52)
 7.  No Problem (2nd Version) (5:58)
 8.  Weehawken Mad Pad (1:49)
 9.  Valmontana (2nd Version) (4:32)

Personnel:

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey:  Drums 
Lee Morgan:  Trumpet on Tracks:  1, 4-9
Barney Wilen:  Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone on Tracks:  1, 3-9
Jymie Merritt:  Bass
Bobby Timmons:  Piano
John Rodriguez:  Bongos on Track:  2-9
Tommy Lopez:  Congas on Tracks:  2-9
William Rodriguez:  Congas on Tracks:  2-9

Les Laisons Dangereuses 1960 is film music by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, released on May 3, 2024 by Decca Records.  Pressed on 180 Gram Vinyl.








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