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.

Title:  Free For All (Blue Note Classic Edition) (2026)

Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop, Jazz Instrument

Label:  Blue Note

Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Free For All (11:04)

 2.  Hammer Head (7:47)

Side Two: 

 1.  The Core (9:24)

 2.  Pensativa (8:19)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums

Freddie Hubbard:  Trumpet

Curtis Fuller:  Trombone

Wayne Shorter:  Tenor Saxophone

Cedar Walton:  Piano

Reggie Workman:  Double Bass

Free For All is an album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, originally released on July 1965 by Blue Note, remastered and reissued on January 23, 2026 by Blue Note.  180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl.