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:  Moanin' Red (Limited Edition) (2025)

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument
Label:  Jazz Images

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side A:

 1.  Moanin' (9:35)

 2.  Are You Real (4:50)

 3.  Along Came Betty (6:12)

Side B:

 1.  The Drum Thunder Suite (7:33)

       First Theme:  Drum Thunder

       Second Theme:  Cry A Blue Tear

       Third Theme:  Harlem's Disciples

 2.  Blues March (6:17)

 3.  Come Rain Or Come Shine (5:49)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums

Lee Morgan:  Trumpet

Banny Golson:  Tenor Saxophone

Bobby Timmons:  Piano

Mymie Merritt:  Bass

Moanin' is an album by Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers, originally released in 1958 by Blue Note, remastered and reissued on November 21, 2025 by Jazz Images.  Limited Edition in Red Colored Vinyl.