Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Art Blakey counts Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and Terence Blanchard among his Jazz Messengers alumni. And that's the short list. Roland Godefroy hide caption

    • Pittsburgh
    • Fletcher Henderson
    • Billy Eckstine
    • 1945
    • 1946
    • 1947
    • Africa?
    • 1948
    • 1949
    • 1950

    Art Blakey was born in Pittsburgh, PA on October 11, 1919. 1939: John Michel-t; Specs Thomas “Horse-collar”-as; Musa Kaleem (Orlando Wright)-ts; Walter “Woogie” Harris-tb; Art Blakey-p; William McMahon-b; Albert “Skippy” Saunders-d 1. Democratic Club, Pittsburgh, PA (1939) Art Blakey group [Jazz Hot 1/59] 1941: went to New York (as a pianist) with ...

    Apollo Theater, NYC (March 19-25, 1943) Fletcher Henderson gig [All Fletcher Henderson data from Allen]
    Jaffe Mosque, Altoona, PA (March 26, 1943) Fletcher Henderson gig
    Dayton, OH (March 27, 1943) Fletcher Henderson gig
    Club Madrid, Louisville, KY (March 29-April 10, 1943) Fletcher Henderson gig
    NYC (April 13, 1944) Billy Eckstine session (DeLuxe) [can Blakey be on this early date?]
    Riviera Club, St. Louis, MO (2 weeks c. July 1944) Billy Eckstine gig [Miles p.7-8, Vail]
    Regal Theater, Chicago, IL (opened August 18, 1944) [Allen]
    NYC (September 5, 1944) Billy Eckstine session (Audio-Lab)
    Club Plantation, Los Angeles, CA (February 1945) Billy Eckstine session (AFRS Jubilee broadcasts)
    NYC (April 9, 1945) Billy Eckstine session (National)
    NYC (May 2, 1945) Billy Eckstine session (National) [The Mercury Labels]
    NYC (September 1945) Billy Eckstine session (National) [The Mercury Labels]
    NYC (January 3, 1946) Billy Eckstine session (National) [The Mercury Labels]
    NYC (February 1946) Billy Eckstine session (National) [The Mercury Labels]
    NYC (March 1946) Billy Eckstine session (National) [The Mercury Labels]
    Lincoln Square Center, NYC (May 12, 1946) Re-bop Jam Session
    Apollo Theater, NYC (week beginning January 10, 1947) Billy Eckstine gig [Vail]
    Smalls Paradise, NYC (April 1947) Leo Parker vs. Serge Chaloff gig [Vail]

    1947: Seventeen Messengers big band: Ray Copeland-t; Sahib Shihab (Edmund Gregory)-as; [unknown Brooklyn guy]-ts; Cecil Payne-bar; Haleen Rasheed (Howard Bowe)-tb; Thelonious Monk-p; Gary Mapp-b [from Gene Lees Interview of Sahib Shihab, Jazzletter, May 1985] [Both the instrumentation and personnel, however, sound like it would be the nine-piece gr...

    January 25, 1948: Bennie Harris-t; Thelonious Monk-p [others unknown] 1. – Club 845, NYC (January 25, 1948) [unrecorded] [NY Amsterdam News 1/24/48] February 16, 1948: Idrees Sulieman-t; Thelonious Monk-p; Curley Russell-b 1. – Festival of American Music WNYC Broadcast (Chazzer 2002) c. March 1948: Sahib Shihab-as; Thelonious Monk-p; Al McKibbon-b ...

    Audubon Ballroom, NYC (January 1949) Bud Powell dance [Fujioka, New Grove p.888]
    – NYC (February 15, 1949) Lucky Millinder session (Victor)
    – (Spring 1949) Tour with Lucky Millinder big band [Jazz Hot 1/59]
    – NYC (April 8, 1949) Big John Greer session (Victor)
    NYC (February 1950) Dick Hyman session
    Birdland, NYC (February 9, 1950) Miles Davis-Stan Getz gig [Vail] [Max Roach is on 2/10/50 broadcast of this band]
    NYC (February 10, 1950) Sonny Stitt WNYC broadcast (Ozone)
    – NYC (February 17, 1950) Sonny Stitt session (Prestige)
  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Art_BlakeyArt Blakey - Wikipedia

    Jazz Messengers. Website. artblakey .com. Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.

  3. Oct 26, 2021 · Art Blakey was born on 11 October 1919. A major figure in jazz from the 1950s until his death on 16 October 1990, he was one of the music’s great drummers and bandleaders. But he was also something more. He was a great communicator, spreading the jazz gospel wherever he played around the globe. Jazz, he would remind his audience, was the ...

  4. Art Blakey was born in Pittsburgh on October 11, 1919 and made his mark in the jazz world in the 1940s as a drummer first with Fletcher Henderson‘s big band and then Billy Eckstine‘s legendary ...

  5. Oct 11, 2012 · By Art Blakey. Pianist Horace Silver was the Jazz Messengers' original leader and, along with Blakey, the group's co-founding father. ... Like Shorter, Watson and Williams, Terence Blanchard did a ...

  6. People also ask

  7. Dec 6, 2020 · Mulgrew Miller (piano); Jean Toussaint (tenor sax); Donald Harrison (alto sax); Terence Blanchard (trumpet); Lonnie Plaxico (bass); Art Blakey (drums)- Track...

    • 57 min
    • 5.3K
    • Jazz Transcriptions. Cristinel Manascurta
  1. People also search for