WILLIAMSTOWN — George Cables remembers the night of his first gig with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. It was 1969 and the 24-year-old piano player had just joined the group at the recommendation of ...

We start our salute to Art Blakey with a recording he made in 1955, when he was co-leader of the band Horace Silver and The Jazz Messengers. Pianist Silver wrote "The Preacher," and the band was ...

Although they were somewhat late to the vinyl renaissance game, Craft Records has made up for lost time by tapping a wide range of music. From the Latin strains of Fania Records to the so-called acid ...

Jazz drummer Art Blakey brought a propulsive, irresistible swing to his playing, an intensity that drove his ensembles like dry leaves before the wild hurricane. “He was a volcano,” said Gordon ...

Jazz Icons Art Blakey boasts an exceptional onehour concert by Art Blakey from Paris in 1965 This performance showcases one of the few undocumented Blakey bands the New Jazzmen featuring the ...

Music enthusiasts in Elgin are in for a treat as The Guest List, a talented jazz ensemble, will perform “A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers” on Sunday, March 23. The performance will be ...

The Tampa Jazz Club begins a new season of Sunday afternoon concerts at HCC/Ybor City with an all-star sextet led by drummer Paul Gavin, playing ‘Hard Bop’ as typified by Art Blakey & The Jazz ...

In 1961, the drummer Art Blakey was leading what was perhaps the mightiest edition of the Jazz Messengers in the ensemble’s long history. With the saxophonist Wayne Shorter, the trumpeter Lee Morgan, ...

This is FRESH AIR. In Nigeria in 1964, when future Afrobeat star Fela Kuti heard and hired his influential drummer Tony Allen, they were both working as jazz musicians. The following year, they ...

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers' Free for All was recorded in February 1964 and released in July 1965. Only four tracks were recorded, two per side. And yet the album is one of the hard-bop sextet's ...