Results for "Art Blakey"

A Night in Tunisia

Featuring the music of Art Blakey
Duration: 1:18
March 6, 2007

Dat Dere

Featuring the music of Art Blakey
Duration: 8:14
March 5, 2007

Drum Solo!

Featuring the music of Art Blakey
Duration: 2:30
March 4, 2007

Art Blakey: Mission Eternal, Vol. 2

by Ronald S. Russ
February 9, 2007

While some people have insinuated that nothing was really happening in jazz during the 1970s, this reissue should provide evidence to the contrary. Art Blakey, always working with younger talent, found a way to stay current in an era dominated by fusion, without compromising his integrity. While there are electric keyboards as well as electric guitars ...

Holiday For Skins

By Art Blakey

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Feast; Aghano; Lamento Africano; Mirage; O'Tinde; Swingin' Kilts; Dinga; Reflection.

Live at Slug's, NYC

By Art Blakey

Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2006
Track listing: New World; Angel Eyes; Slide No. 2; Theme.

Art Blakey: Holiday For Skins

by Chris May
June 27, 2006

An unpleasant odour of Eurocentric condescension has hung over Art Blakey's drum choir projects ever since they were recorded in the late 1950s. Orgy In Rhythm (1957) and Holiday For Skins (1958)--both originally released as two LPs and both now packaged on single CDs, the latter newly available in this Connoisseur edition--have been viewed by some ...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Live! at Slug's, NYC

by Samuel Chell
June 9, 2006

The drums and bass are miked too “hot," and the horns occasionally distort, but there are at least two compelling reasons to listen to this 2006 release of a 1968 on-location Messengers date featuring an unusual Blakey lineup. (No doubt some jazz fans will recognize Slug's as the unpretentious Bowery jazz saloon where Lee Morgan was ...

Charles Fambrough at the Michener Museum

by Edward Zucker
May 12, 2006

Charles Fambrough Michener Museum Doylestown, PA April 29, 2006 The Michener Museum in Doylestown celebrated the 10th anniversary of its ongoing jazz series with a performance by bassist Charles Fambrough and his quartet on April 29, 2006. Fambrough, best known for his work with Art Blakey and McCoy ...

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Live at Slug's, NYC

by David Rickert
March 6, 2006

Many of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers left the group to build successful careers of their own. However, in between Lee Morgan and Wayne Shorter and the Marsalises was this curious 1968 band, made up largely of talented unknowns. This particular version of the band never made it into the studio, and this live recording from Slug's ...