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Art Blakey
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. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He then worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s, Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group that the drummer was associated with for the next 35 years. The group was formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller, Chuck Mangione, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Cedar Walton, Woody Shaw, Terence Blanchard, and Wynton Marsalis. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers "the archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s." Blakey was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1981). Posthumously, he was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Grammy Hall of Fame (in 1998 and 2001). He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. |
Birth and Death Data: Born October 11, 1919 (Pittsburgh), Died October 16, 1990 (New York City)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1951
Roles Represented in DAHR: drums
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Recordings
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | 80993 | 5/10/1951 | Experience | Martha Davis | instrumentalist, drums | |||
Decca | 80994 | 5/10/1951 | How could anything be so bad | Martha Davis | instrumentalist, drums | |||
Decca | 80995 | 5/10/1951 | You're the doctor | Martha Davis | instrumentalist, drums | |||
Decca | 80996 | 5/10/1951 | Piano player boogie | Martha Davis | instrumentalist, drums | |||
Decca | 81296 | 7/20/1951 | If, if, if you were mine | Gladys Bruce | instrumentalist, drums | |||
Decca | 81297 | 7/20/1951 | I've got the blues for my baby | Gladys Bruce | instrumentalist, drums | |||
Decca | 81298 | 7/20/1951 | Trinidad Daddy | Gladys Bruce | instrumentalist, drums | |||
Decca | 81299 | 7/20/1951 | The right kind of feeling | Gladys Bruce | instrumentalist, drums |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Blakey, Art," accessed August 24, 2024, https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/304620.
Blakey, Art. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved August 24, 2024, from https://adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu/names/304620.
"Blakey, Art." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 24 August 2024.
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Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Blakey, Art, 1919-1990 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81023040
Wikidata: Art Blakey - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q311715
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/10032579
MusicBrainz: Art Blakey - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/601e7466-eaf5-4a91-9909-ffd770b7e04a
ISNI: 0000 0001 0869 405X - http://www.isni.org/isni/000000010869405X
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