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    the Messengers on one's resume was a rite of passage in the jazz world, and conveyed immediate bona fides. Many former members of the Jazz Messengers...
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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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    Marsalis. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers "the archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s." Blakey was inducted into the Down...
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  • The Jazz Messengers is the first studio album by the Jazz Messengers, released in 1956 by Columbia Records. It was their fourth overall album (after the...
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    American jazz drummer and bandleader. "Art Blakey" and "Jazz Messengers" became synonymous over the years, though Blakey led many non-Messenger recording...
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    Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers is an album by Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers compiling two 1955 10" LPs—Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 3 (BLP...
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  • and the Jazz Messengers, or simply the Jazz Messengers, was a 1955–1990 jazz combo. The name may also refer to several albums by the group: The Jazz Messengers...
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  • 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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  • and the Jazz Messengers (stylized as Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! and titled Alamode in Japan) is a studio album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers...
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  • studio album by the Jazz Messengers featuring Art Blakey. Three years after being recorded, it was first released on the Pacific Jazz Records label as...
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  • Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk is a studio album released in 1958 by Atlantic Records. It is a collaboration between the Jazz Messengers, the group...
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  • Moanin' (song) (category 1950s jazz standards)
    Blakey's band the Jazz Messengers for the album of the same title that was released by Blue Note Records. Both the single and album are in the Grammy Hall...
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    Hard bop (category Jazz terminology)
    the Jazz Messengers. David Rosenthal sees the development of hard bop as a response to both a decline in bebop and the rise of rhythm and blues: The early...
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  • Hank Mobley (category The Jazz Messengers members)
    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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    Jazz Prophets (formed shortly after Art Blakey took over the Jazz Messengers name). The Jazz Prophets, featuring a young Bobby Timmons on piano, bassist...
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  • Horace Silver discography (category Jazz discographies)
    founding member of The Jazz Messengers, originally run cooperatively, later by drummer Art Blakey alone. After leaving the Messengers, Silver led a five-piece...
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  • for the extended party scene by Jack Marray (a pseudonym for Duke Jordan) was recorded by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers with Barney Wilen. The soundtrack...
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  • Wayne Shorter discography (category Jazz discographies)
    Bob Cranshaw, Albert Heath and Louis Hayes The Young Lions (Vee-Jay, 1961) – rec. 1960 The Jazz Messengers 1959: Africaine (Blue Note, 1981) 1959: Paris...
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    Lee Morgan (category The Jazz Messengers members)
    albums by the Messengers, including Moanin', which is one of the band's best-known recordings. When Benny Golson left the Jazz Messengers, Morgan persuaded...
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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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  • impacted the resurgence of traditionalism in the jazz community. In the 1970s, the groups of Betty Carter and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers retained...
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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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  • Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio and rooted in the hard bop style, Mobley's quartet features Art Blakey (his past bandleader in the Jazz Messengers), and two...
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  • Records, Mosaic (2021-06-09). "Art Blakey & Jazz Messengers A Night At Birdland -". Mosaic Records - Home for Jazz fans!. Retrieved 2021-07-21. A Night at...
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  • Shorter also participated in the recording of the Blakey album Africaine, his first studio session with the Jazz Messengers, which included two of his compositions...
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  • Morgan Lawley. The song contains a sample from "Stretching" by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. "Rebirth of Slick" peaked at No. 15 on the US Billboard...
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    Curtis Fuller (category The Jazz Messengers members)
    2021) was an American jazz trombonist. He was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and contributed to many classic jazz recordings. Fuller was born...
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    Chuck Mangione (category The Jazz Messengers members)
    School of Music from 1958 to 1963, then joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, for which he filled the trumpet chair previously held by Clifford Brown, Freddie...
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  • MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Album Guide. Music Sales Corporation. ISBN 0825672538. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed...
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    Benny Golson (category The Jazz Messengers members)
    with the bands of Lionel Hampton, Johnny Hodges, Earl Bostic, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, with whom he recorded the classic...
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