Art Blakey

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About Art Blakey

Drummer Art Blakey was the leader of the Jazz Messengers, the quintessential hard bop ensemble. In the '60s, '70s, and '80s, when artists on the cutting edge were attempting to transform jazz music, Blakey continued to play in more or less the same vein he had since the '40s, when his cohorts included the likes of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Fats Navarro. By the '80s, the evolving mainstream consensus had reached a point of overwhelming approval in regard to hard bop: this is what jazz is, and Art Blakey, as its longest-lived and most eloquent exponent, was its master. ~ Chris Kelsey

HOMETOWN
Pittsburgh, PA, United States
BORN
October 11, 1919
GENRE
Jazz

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