Latest Release
- FEB 3, 2024
- 60 Songs
- Jazz - Best Hits - · 1958
- Background Jazz · 1958
- Caravan · 1962
- A Night in Tunisia (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) · 1960
- The Jazz Messengers · 1956
- Round Midnight · 1953
- Not Yet · 1988
- Round Midnight · 2005
- A Night in Tunisia (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) · 1960
- Round Midnight · 1957
- 1989
- 1988
- 1979
Artist Playlists
- From bebop to hard bop, this percussive legend led the way.
- The hard-swinging jazz drummer never stopped experimenting.
- Dig the drumming bandleader's extracurricular activities.
Compilations
- 1997
- 1948
Appears On
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
- Bobby Timmons
- The Jazz Messengers
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