The Art of Jazz: Live in Leverkusen is a live album by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at the Leverkusen Jazz Festival in Germany on October 9, 1989. To commemorate...
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drummer Art Blakey died in 1990. Blakey led or co-led the group from the outset. "Art Blakey" and "Jazz Messengers" became synonymous over the years, though...
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was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey...
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Moanin' (redirect from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958 album))
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, also called Moanin', is a studio album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded on October 30, 1958 and released...
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (stylized as Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! and titled Alamode in Japan) is a studio album by Art Blakey and the...
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The Jazz Messengers were a jazz band that existed with varying personnel for 35 years. Their discography consists of 47 studio albums, 21 live albums,...
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk is a studio album released in 1958 by Atlantic Records. It is a collaboration between the Jazz Messengers...
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Les Liaisons dangereuses (film) (category Films set in 1959)
by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers with Barney Wilen, was originally released on the French Fontana label. AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow states of the...
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Kenny Dorham (redirect from And The Jazz Prophets Vol. 1)
including the Jazz Prophets (formed shortly after Art Blakey took over the Jazz Messengers name). The Jazz Prophets, featuring a young Bobby Timmons on piano...
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At the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related live albums by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, recorded at the Birdland...
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piano. In 1968, Columbia reissued the LP in their Jazz Odyssey Series with a new cover under the title Art Blakey with the Original Jazz Messengers. In 1997...
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Jazz Messengers '70 is a live album by drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recorded in Tokyo in 1970 and originally released on the Catalyst label. Scott...
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Buttercorn Lady (category The Jazz Messengers live albums)
is a live album by drummer Art Blakey's New Jazz Messengers recorded at The Lighthouse jazz club in 1966 and originally released that year on the Limelight...
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Jymie Merritt (category The Jazz Messengers members)
American jazz double-bassist, Ampeg Baby Bass and bass guitar pioneer, band leader and composer. Merritt was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers...
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You at the Jazz Corner of the World, Vols. 1 & 2 are a pair of separate but related live albums by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers recorded at the Birdland...
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Steve Davis (trombonist) (category The Jazz Messengers members)
studied jazz under Jackie McLean at the University of Hartford Hartt School. McLean recommended Davis to Art Blakey, and he joined The Jazz Messengers in 1989...
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Charles Fambrough (category The Jazz Messengers members)
an American jazz bassist, composer and record producer from Philadelphia. Fambrough was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers during the early 1980s...
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Chick Corea (category The Jazz Messengers members)
widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed...
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Reggie Workman (category The Jazz Messengers members)
an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey, in addition to Alice Coltrane...
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A Night at Birdland, Vols. 1–3 (category Art Blakey live albums)
10" LPs by the Art Blakey Quintet recorded live at the Birdland jazz club on February 21, 1954, and released on Blue Note later that year, in July, October...
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Session with the Jazz Messengers is a live album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers originally released on the Elektra label in 1957. The album masters...
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Lee Morgan (category The Jazz Messengers members)
American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his...
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Bobby Watson (category The Jazz Messengers members)
with the FAA. While Watson was in junior high school there, a jazz history class he took helped him realize he was a jazz musician. He attended the University...
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A Night in Tunisia is a studio album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, released in May 1961 through Blue Note Records. It was recorded in August 1960...
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Wayne Shorter discography (category Jazz discographies)
This is a comprehensive list of the discography of the jazz saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter as a leader and sideman. The Young Lions with Frank Strozier...
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Johnny Griffin (category The Jazz Messengers members)
an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Nicknamed "the Little Giant" for his short stature and forceful playing, Griffin's career began in the mid-1940s and...
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Hank Mobley (category The Jazz Messengers members)
also in The Jazz Messengers for the recording of the live album At the Cafe Bohemia, and he appeared on the Columbia Records studio album The Jazz Messengers...
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1958 – Paris Olympia (category The Jazz Messengers live albums)
live album by drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recorded at L'Olympia in 1958 and originally released on the French Fontana label. Scott Yanow of Allmusic...
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a live album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco in 1981 and released on the Concord Jazz label...
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Bill Hardman (category The Jazz Messengers members)
Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Live at Slug's (1968) (Everest 1977) Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Moanin' Live (1968) (Laserlight CD) Jazz Messengers...
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