Jazz Articles about Art Blakey

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Roots And Herbs

by Jim Santella
January 1, 2000

Recorded early in 1961, not released on LP until nine years later, and now available as a CD, Roots And Herbs carries on the tradition of hard bop and those unique features that set the genre apart from other forms of jazz. Art Blakey’s quintet recorded the compositions of Wayne Shorter at three sessions in February and May alongside insistent bombs and variable-pitched drum throbs from the veteran teacher and leader. Those eccentric ‘60s witnessed substantial changes in jazz (as ...

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Art Blakey / Stan Getz (Music Club: Art Blakey is Jazz / Stan Getz is Jazz

by C. Michael Bailey
July 1, 1999

1. Music Club has begun a release series entitled ...is Jazz highlighting the live recordings of prominent jazz musicians. Two of the first releases are from Stan Getz and Art Blakey performing live in the early 80s.

Buhaina’s Delight. Art Blakey was a titan music educator. His Jazz Messengers more prominent jazz musicians than even Miles Davis. This outing finds Bu with a 19 year old Wynton Marsalis and a 27 year old Bobby Watson. They wind their way at ...

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Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Africaine

by Ian Nicolson
March 1, 1999

Many fans with tuned-in ears rate Blakey and Blue Note as the ultimate in Jazz talent-spotting - and his Jazz Messengers were their Academy of Excellence. Lee Morgan, Cedar Walton, Wayne Shorter, Feddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Curtis Fuller, Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons all became Messengers, in front of one of the presiding geniuses of hard bop. Blakey ruled the drum stool from the inception of the band in the mid-Fifties to the end of the line in the late ...

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Art Blakey: Midnight Session

by John Sharpe
April 1, 1998

In the fall of 1956, Blakey introduced a new edition of the Jazz Messengers with Jackie McLean (alto), Bill Hardman (trumpet), Sam Dockery (piano) and Spanky DeBrest(bass). Over the next 25 years Blakey's bands would go through many personnel changes (sometimes it seems as if everyone in jazz has worked with Art) but the hard bop sound of this prototypical unit became the model for all of Art's aggregations. Originally released on the Savoy label, Midnight Session is another in ...