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Drum Suite

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Sacrifice; Cubano Chant; Oscalypso; Nica's Tempo; D's Dilemma; Just for Marty; L'il; The New Message.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Art Blakey: Drum Suite / The Big Beat / Caravan

by Russ Musto
October 16, 2005

Together these three reissues demonstrate that although each of Blakey's bands maintained a similar sound they also possessed their own individual identities. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Drum Suite Columbia-Legacy Drum Suite is a unique entry in the Blakey discography. Originally comprised of two sessions - one debuting Blakey's first percussion ...

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Article: Album Review

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Drum Suite

Read "Drum Suite" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella
September 29, 2005

The all-star lineup on Drum Suite gives the album high marks before one note of music is played. It's a piece of history. Released in 1957, the album merged Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with several other musical forces that proved fruitful, rhythmically and otherwise. With this reissue come several bonus tracks that had appeared ...

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Article: Genius Guide to Jazz

For Art's Sake

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
April 11, 2005

Drummer and bandleader Art Blakey is driving through a small town when he notices a sparsely-attended graveside service being conducted in the hamlet's cemetery. He stops his car and gets out, perhaps paying his respects to some anonymous soul he would now never even meet. As the pastor's service winds down, a call is made for ...

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Blakey's Beat

By Art Blakey

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disk One: Art Blakey Intro; Pamela; Unlimited; In This Korner; The Song is You; Dark Side, Light Side; 1978 (1977 A.D.); Blues for Two
Disk Two: Falling in Love With Love; My Romance; Webb City; How Deep is the Ocean; E.T.A.; The Theme

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'S Make It

By Art Blakey

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Faith 2. 'S Make It 3. Waltz For Ruth 4. One For Gamal 5. Little Hughie 6. Olympia 7. Lament for Stacy.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Return

by Russ Musto
December 14, 2004

Together, these three titles documenting four dates, each featuring a different configuration of the Jazz Messengers, clearly demonstrate Art Blakey's ability to instigate his young charges' creativity while maintaining an identifiable group sound that remained open to change. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Free for All Blue Note 2004 ...

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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: 'S Make It

Read "'S Make It" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
September 15, 2004

The Blue Note Jazz Messengers recordings are so highly regarded that the ones the group did for other labels at around the same time tend to fall by the wayside. This shouldn't be the case; Blakey was such a determined taskmaster that he was able to get great performances out of his players on just about ...

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Blakey's Beat

Read "Blakey's Beat" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
July 12, 2004

Art Blakey may never have strayed far from the music that captured his spirit in his youth, namely the more soulful and simple-themed variation on bebop called hard bop, but throughout the course of his fifty-plus year career, he was a constant, most notably with his Jazz Messengers band, starting in '53 and continuing until literally ...

Article: Profile

Blue Mitchell

by Robert Spencer
March 8, 2004

All About Jazz contributing writer C. Andrew Hovan said it best: “Those of you that are longtime jazz fans, take a few minutes and see how many jazz trumpeters you can name in the next minute. All done? I'm sure many of you remember Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Louis Armstrong, and Buck Clayton, just to name ...