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
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'  (1999)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Bebop
Label:  Blue Note Records
Rating:  *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One: 

 1.  Moanin'  (9:30)

 2.  Are You Real  (4:45)

 3.  Along Came Betty  (6:09

Side Two:

 1.  The Drum Thunder Suite  (7:15)
 2.  Blues March  (6:53)
 3.  Come Rain Or Come Shine  (5:45)

Personnel:

Art Blakey:  Drums
Lee Morgan:  Trumpet
Benny Golson:  Tenor Saxophone
Bobby Timmons:  Piano
Jymie Merritt:  Bass

Moanin' is one of the Great Classic of Hard Bop of Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers, originally released in 1958by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued on July 17, 2026 by Blue Note Records.  140 Gram Vinyl.