Art Blakey
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1919-10-11
- Died
- 1990-10-16
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Kenny Drew with the Modern Jazz Quartet Songbook
- Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Kenny Drew with the Modern Jazz Quartet
- Drum sounds
- Jazz Messengers (36158)
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Film & TV
Sound · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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…
Known for
- Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell — Self - Jazz Musician (archive footage)2021
- Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes — Self (archive footage)2019
- Jazz Icons: Art Blakey Live in '65 — Self - drums2009
- Jazz Icons: Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Live In '58 — Self2006
- One Night with Blue Note — Self2004
- Jazz — Self (archive footage)2001
- Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger — Self1988
- The Cosby Show — Drummer1984
- Jazz Is Our Religion1972
- Discorama — Self1959
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 392,757
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- 3,391,295
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Arthur "Art" Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was and continues to be profoundly influential on mainstream jazz. For more than 30 years his band Art Blakey <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Art+Blakey">Re
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Key facts
- Also known as
- Abdullah Ibn Buhaina
- Born
- Arthur Blakey , ( 1919-10-11 ) October 11, 1919, Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Died
- October 16, 1990 (1990-10-16) (aged 71), Manhattan , New York City , U.S.
- Genres
- Jazz hard bop bebop straight-ahead jazz
- Occupations
- Musician bandleader
- Instruments
- Drums percussion
- Works
- Solo Jazz Messengers
- Years active
- 1942–1990
- Label
- Blue Note
- Formerly of
- Jazz Messengers
- Website
- artblakey .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 11 October 1919
- Died
- 16 October 1990
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Art
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Award
- NEA Jazz Masters
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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 which he led 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."
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