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Born in 1919, Art Blakey began his musical career, as did many jazz musicians, in the church. The foster son of a devout Seventh Day Adventist Family, Art learned the piano as he learned the Bible, mastering both at an early age. But as Art himself told it so many times, his career on the piano ended at the wrong end of a pistol when the owner of the Democratic Club—the Pittsburgh nightclub where he was gigging—ordered him off the piano and onto the drums. Art, then in his early teens and a budding pianist, was usurped by an equally young, Erroll Garner who, as it turned out, was as skilled at the piano as Blakey later was at the drums
Blue Moon Over Paris: ORTF Recordings 1963 and 1968
By Art Blakey
Label: Elemental Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Moor River; Buhaina's Delight; That Old Feeling; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Caravan; Slide
No.1; Blues For Eros; You Don't Know What Love Is; Moanin'; Blue Moon; The Theme.
Case File: The Walkin' Papers
by Cool Vic, The Music Dick
There are two things I don't trust: a man who claims to know everything about jazz and a record that changes its name without leaving a forwarding address.I was halfway through a respectable cup of coffee when a letter arrived from a reader who'd been listening to Miles Davis's “Walkin.'" He'd come across an ...
Take Five with Vocalist Greg Farnese
by AAJ Staff
Greg Farnese is a modern-day throwback vocalist, a crooner, if you will. He reignites the treasured and timeless classics from the Great American Songbook and blends them with his unique interpretations of his modern-day favorites. A South Jersey native, Greg began his career in acting and moved to Hollywood, California, where he worked in theater, television ...
Classics from John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Others; New Music from Christine Tobin, Bobby Watson, Carmen Lundy and More
by David W. Daniels
In addition to the artists in the title, this edition of Exploration honors the birthdays of Patrice Rushen, Dave Holland, Jean-Luc Ponty, and others. Playlist Charles McPherson “Explorations" from McPherson's Mood (Prestige) 00:00 John Coltrane “Naima (Take 1)" from Blue World (Impulse!/Verve Label Group) 7:50 Miles Davis “A Night In Tunisia" from The Musings ...
Remembering Ray Brown and Lou Donaldson on their centennial
by Larry Slater
The bassist Ray Brown had one of the most prolific and successful careers in jazz. He did it all, playing in the 40s with Charlie Parker, Art Tatum and Dizzy Gillespie, before becoming a founding member of the early Modern Jazz Quartet. He was a member of Oscar Peterson's trio for 14 years as well as ...
I Love New York
by Marshall Bowden
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in October 2001. There's another reason as well. New York City is a financial and business center, certainly, and this is one reason it was marked for attack. But it is also very much our nation's cultural and arts center, the showpiece of the country that ...
Texas Tenors and the Big Beat
by Marshall Bowden
This article first appeared on All About Jazz in July 2002. Texas is a miniature of the cultural and musical melting pot that is American music. Texas shares a border with Louisiana, inheriting some of that state's French and Caribbean roots, and when it comes to the blues, Texas has its own style. Texas ...
Ulysses Owens, Jr. and Generation Y: Kind of Grunge
by Jack Bowers
New York-based master drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. is back, Generation Y in tow, with another generous helping of so-called “grunge jazz" deftly transformed to straight-ahead patterns in a style similar to that of the legendary Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. This is not, however, precisely the same Generation Y that recorded the well-received ...
Benny Green: Renovation
by Pierre Giroux
There are pianists who play solo because they have something to prove, and then there are pianists like Benny Green, who have nothing to prove and regard the absence of a rhythm section as an invitation. On Renovation, his first live solo recording, Green seems to be enjoying himself. Most of these 13 performances were recorded ...
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