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Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers – Blue Note 1517
by Marc Davis
And now we reach the point in our program entitled, “What's The Point?" As in: You already know this album, you may already own this album, and yet here we are, discussing an album that's 59 years old and so widely synonymous with hard bop and Blue Note Records that it was featured on the promo page of All About Jazz's special magazine dedicated to All Things Blue Note. In other words, it's like trying to ...
Continue ReadingThe Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia, Volumes 1 and 2 – Blue Note 1507 and 1508
by Marc Davis
Is it possible for a band to be both legendary and underrated? The Jazz Messengers at the Café Bohemia makes that case. Jazz fans know the Jazz Messengers is the definitive, go-to band for straight-ahead hard bop. Art Blakey was both master drummer and master talent scout--the man who co-founded and sustained the celebrated group. For all his talents as a trailblazing harp bop drummer, Blakey's probably better known for discovering and nurturing several generations of jazz in ...
Continue ReadingAnnouncing Smoke Jazz Club’s February Line-up With Pianist Jacky Terrasson, Eric Alexander Quartet, Jazz Messengers Alumni, And A Special Valentine’s Week With Beloved Vocalist Mary Stallings
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AMT Public Relations
SMOKE Jazz Club welcomes back some of today’s leading artists in February. For five nights during Valentine’s Week (Feb 12-16), the remarkable vocalist Mary Stallings returns to SMOKE with her warm tone and vocal virtuosity. Wowing jazz fans for over six decades, Stallings is well into her 80s, still singing and swinging. No stranger to the SMOKE stage, French pianist Jacky Terrasson leads his Trio (Feb 5-9). “It’s a special treat to get to see this ebullient artist up close ...
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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Free for All
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Free for All was recorded in February 1964 and released in July 1965. Only four tracks were recorded, two per side. And yet the album is one of the hard-bop sextet's finest and most ambitious works. The band is firing on all cylinders. The lineup in 1964 featured Blakey on drums, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Cedar Walton on piano and Reggie Workman on bass. The ...
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Backgrounder: Art Blakey! Jazz Messengers!, 1961
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of my favorite albums by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers has a baffling title. For some reason, Impulse Records decided the title should be Art Blakey Jazz Messengers The confusing result is that some refer to the album as Impulse!!! or Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers!!! while those in Japan know the album as Alamode. Whatever title you choose, the album is an explosion of energy and beauty. Recorded in June 1961, the Messengers lineup consisted of ...
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Jazz 625: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On March 7, 1965, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers appeared on the BBC-TVs Jazz 625, hosted by Humphrey Lyttelton. The video of the performance was recently colorized, which gives the musicians enormous dimension and visual personality. The music was always great. The color just makes the presentation a little greater. The Jazz Messengers on this date consisted of Art Blakey (d), Lee Morgan (tp), John Gilmore (ts), John Hicks (p) and Victor Sproles (b). Here's Art Blakey & the ...
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A Tribute To Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers With Messenger Alums Bill Pierce & John Ramsay on November 13
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Mary Curtin Productions
A Tribute to Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. Featuring “messenger” alums Bill Pierce (saxophone) and John Ramsay (drums); accompanied by Greg Hopkins (trumpet), Dan Fox (trombone), Consuelo Candelaria (piano), and Greg Ryan (bass). Arlington High School Jazz Band, led by Tino D'Agostino, opens. Sunday, November 13, 6:30 pm. For advance concert tickets ($25, $15 students/seniors), click here. For further information visit us, email us or call 617-909-7776. Location Robbins Memorial Town Hall 730 Massachusetts Avenue Arlington, MA ...
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Jazz "Messengers" Spread The Word At 2014 Jazz In The Valley
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
By Charley Rosen On a glorious summer day in August, the fifth and final set of the 14th Annual Jazz in the Valley Festival was thrilling, nostalgic, even historic; transporting the seven musicians and hundreds of enraptured witnesses into Jazz Heaven. Six of the jazzmen had been members of various editions of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messenger, and they were all world-class artists. Calling themselves “The Message, ” the lineup had Javon Jackson playing tenor sax, Gary Bartz on either soprano ...
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The History of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note, 1992)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
During his lengthy career that stretched from the late 1940's to the late 1980's, drummer Art Blakey was at the forefront of bebop and hard-bop jazz. His band would become an incubator for young jazz talent, many of whom went on to have significant careers in the music. This three-disc set presents highlights from Blakey's recordings, and while by no means a comprehensive summation (Mosaic once did a six disc boxed set about one year of Blakey's music, 1960) it ...
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - The Sesjun Radio Shows (2011)
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Something Else!
Art Blakey is spoken about a lot in our little 'berg on the internet, and like most other admirers of his Jazz Messengers body of work, we tend to focus more on the late 50s-mid 60s era that included so many future jazz icons like Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, etc., etc. What's sometimes overlooked is the fact that Blakey had never stopped mentoring future jazz stars. As Nick ...
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "Theme for Stacy" (1966)
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
Previously Unreleased Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers on "The Sesjun Shows" out April 12
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
Double CD Features Live Sets Recorded for Dutch Radio U.S. Release by Naxos of America, Inc. & T2 Entertainment Naxos of America, Inc. and T2 Entertainment announce the U.S. release of a second CD from The Sesjun Radio Shows archives. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers—The Sesjun Radio Shows, a 2-CD set, has an April 12, 2011 release date in the United States and Canada. Art Blakey is, of course, universally regarded as one of the major pioneers of modern ...
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