Art Blakey

Trackimage Playbut Trackname Playbut Trackname
Moanin' 04:44 Tools
Along Came Betty 00:00 Tools
Blues March 06:18 Tools
Are You Real 04:47 Tools
The Drum Thunder Suite 07:31 Tools
So Tired 06:42 Tools
Confirmation 09:18 Tools
Moanin' (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Nica's Dream 00:00 Tools
Once in a While 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver 00:00 Tools
Split Kick 00:00 Tools
Sincerely Diana 06:52 Tools
When Your Lover Has Gone 00:00 Tools
Hank's Symphony 00:00 Tools
Moanin' - Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering; 1999 Digital Rema 00:00 Tools
Come Rain or Come Shine 00:00 Tools
Mayreh 00:00 Tools
Ecaroh 00:00 Tools
It's You or No One 00:00 Tools
The End of a Love Affair 00:00 Tools
Infra-Rae 00:00 Tools
Kozo's Waltz 06:48 Tools
Dat Dere 00:00 Tools
Carol's Interlude 00:00 Tools
Evidence 06:43 Tools
Now's the Time 00:00 Tools
Yama 06:25 Tools
Amuck 00:00 Tools
Caravan 09:46 Tools
Free For All 00:00 Tools
Late Show 00:00 Tools
In Walked Bud 00:00 Tools
Ill Wind 00:00 Tools
Cubano Chant 00:00 Tools
No Hay Problema 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk 00:00 Tools
Split Skins 00:00 Tools
Deciphering the Message 00:00 Tools
Whisper Not 00:00 Tools
Blakey's Blues 00:00 Tools
Ya Ya 00:00 Tools
Moanin' - Live 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford 00:00 Tools
If I Had You 00:00 Tools
When Love Is New 00:00 Tools
Little Melonae 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 08:06 Tools
The Theme 00:00 Tools
Weird-O 00:00 Tools
Buhaina Chant 00:00 Tools
Sortie 00:00 Tools
Amuk 00:00 Tools
Anthenagin 00:00 Tools
The Way You Look Tonight 00:00 Tools
Moose the Mooche 00:00 Tools
Let's Take 16 Bars 00:00 Tools
Lester Left Town 00:00 Tools
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 00:00 Tools
Afrique 00:00 Tools
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 04:06 Tools
Along Came Betty - Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering; 1999 Digital Rema 06:10 Tools
Lee's Tune 00:00 Tools
Skylark 00:00 Tools
I mean you 00:00 Tools
Toffi 00:00 Tools
Alamode 00:00 Tools
Wee-Dot 00:00 Tools
Doodlin' 00:00 Tools
Rhythm-a-Ning 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
Elephant Walk 00:00 Tools
Sweet 'n' Sour 05:31 Tools
The Egyptian 00:00 Tools
Thermo 00:00 Tools
Abdallah's Delight 00:00 Tools
Blues 00:00 Tools
Drums in the Rain 00:00 Tools
Calling Miss Khadija 00:00 Tools
Moon River 05:12 Tools
Are You Real? 00:00 Tools
This Is for Albert 08:20 Tools
Like Someone in Love 00:00 Tools
My Funny Valentine 00:00 Tools
Purple Shades 00:00 Tools
Tin Tin Deo 00:00 Tools
What Is This Thing Called Love? 00:00 Tools
Lover 00:00 Tools
Nica's Tempo 00:00 Tools
The Feast 00:00 Tools
Along Came Betty (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
One By One 00:00 Tools
Ne Chuchote Pas - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Come Out and Meet Me Tonight 00:00 Tools
The Thin Man 00:00 Tools
Lou's Blues 00:00 Tools
Wee Dot 00:00 Tools
Mosaic 00:00 Tools
It's Only a Paper Moon 00:00 Tools
No Hay Problemas 00:00 Tools
Mr. Jin 00:00 Tools
Just By Myself 00:00 Tools
Swingin' Kilts 00:00 Tools
Mirage 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia (Live) 00:00 Tools
Just One of Those Things 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know What Love Is 06:58 Tools
Carol's Interlude (alternate take) 00:00 Tools
Ping Pong 00:00 Tools
Sincerely Diana (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Aghano 00:00 Tools
Bop Alley 00:00 Tools
It's A Long Way Down 00:00 Tools
Lamento Africano 00:00 Tools
No Problem - Bof Les Liaisons Dangereuses 00:00 Tools
Lament For Stacy 00:00 Tools
Summertime 04:42 Tools
Justice 00:00 Tools
Children of the Night 00:00 Tools
Reflection 00:00 Tools
Ms. B.C. 00:00 Tools
Minor's Holiday 00:00 Tools
Dinga 00:00 Tools
Politely 00:00 Tools
Down Under 00:00 Tools
Blue Moon 00:00 Tools
Prince Albert 00:00 Tools
Backstage Sally 00:00 Tools
Are You Real (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Crisis 00:00 Tools
Announcement By Pee Wee Marquette 00:00 Tools
Gone With the Wind 00:00 Tools
Alone Together 00:00 Tools
The Midget 00:00 Tools
Pensativa 00:00 Tools
I Waited for You 00:00 Tools
The Drum Thunder (Miniature) Suite 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays 00:00 Tools
Cranky Spanky 00:00 Tools
Warm-up and Dialogue Between Lee and Rudy 00:00 Tools
Couldn't It Be You? - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
The Fuller Bop Man 00:00 Tools
Sincerely Diana - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
The High Priest 00:00 Tools
Lady Bird 00:00 Tools
The Witch Doctor 00:00 Tools
A Chant For Bu 00:00 Tools
Soft Winds 00:00 Tools
Moanin 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know What Time It Was 00:00 Tools
D's Dilemma 00:00 Tools
Arabia 00:00 Tools
Annoucement By Pee Wee Marquette 00:00 Tools
Moody's All Frantic 00:00 Tools
Love, The Mystery of 00:00 Tools
Dance Of The Infidels 00:00 Tools
What's New 00:00 Tools
Workshop 00:00 Tools
Just for Marty 00:00 Tools
Juste Pour Eux Seuls 00:00 Tools
Are You Real - Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering; 1999 Digital Rema 09:19 Tools
Waltz For Ruth 00:00 Tools
Blues March (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 06:15 Tools
Ugetsu 00:00 Tools
Look At The Birdie 00:00 Tools
Miguel's Party 00:00 Tools
A Little Busy 00:00 Tools
Hammer Head 00:00 Tools
The Drum Thunder Suite (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Merlin 00:00 Tools
La Divorcée De Léo Fall 00:00 Tools
Tropicana 00:00 Tools
No Problem 00:00 Tools
Pasquier 00:00 Tools
Contemplation 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Core 00:00 Tools
The Drum Thunder Suite - Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering; 1999 Digital Rema 07:31 Tools
Obirin African (Woman of Africa) 00:00 Tools
Oscalypso 00:00 Tools
Minority 00:00 Tools
Sportin' Crowd 00:00 Tools
The Song Is You 00:00 Tools
Slide's Delight 00:00 Tools
Weehawken Mad Pad 00:00 Tools
Blues for Eros 00:00 Tools
Blues Pour Marcel 00:00 Tools
Ife L'ayo (There Is Happiness in Love) 00:00 Tools
Moanin' - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;1999 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Eleanor 00:00 Tools
Bouncing With Bud 00:00 Tools
Nasol 00:00 Tools
Générique 00:00 Tools
Tobi Ilu 00:00 Tools
Pierre Et Béatrice 00:00 Tools
Blues (Improvisation) 00:00 Tools
O'tinde 00:00 Tools
Reincarnation Blues 00:00 Tools
Quaglio 00:00 Tools
Ping-Pong 00:00 Tools
The Chess Players 00:00 Tools
Mambo Dans La Voiture 00:00 Tools
My Ideal 00:00 Tools
My Romance 00:00 Tools
Blues Pour Vava 00:00 Tools
Tom poursuite dans la ruelle 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia (Remastered - 2001) 11:14 Tools
Theory of Art 00:00 Tools
Tell it Like it is 00:00 Tools
Up Jumped Spring 00:00 Tools
Blues Pour Doudou 00:00 Tools
Ero Ti Nr'ojeje 00:00 Tools
Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunesia 11:10 Tools
Split Kick (Live) 00:00 Tools
On the Ginza 00:00 Tools
Des Femmes Disparaissent 00:00 Tools
Invitation 00:00 Tools
Message from Kenya 00:00 Tools
Thermo (take 2) 00:00 Tools
Sakeena's Vision 00:00 Tools
Off the Wall 00:00 Tools
The Hub 00:00 Tools
Gershwin Medley 00:00 Tools
Midriff 00:00 Tools
Stella By Starlight 00:00 Tools
Time Off 00:00 Tools
The Sacrifice 00:00 Tools
United 00:00 Tools
Wee-Dot [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Alternate Take) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 09:19 Tools
Noise in the Attic 00:00 Tools
Petty Larceny 00:00 Tools
Soulful Mr. Timmons 00:00 Tools
Blue Lace 00:00 Tools
Wee-Dot (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
The Freedom Rider 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [1999 - Remaster] 00:00 Tools
Theme 00:00 Tools
Round About Midnight (Live) 00:00 Tools
Shaky Jake 00:00 Tools
Moaning 00:00 Tools
Blues March (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1999 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
I Hear a Rhapsody 00:00 Tools
Avila & Tequila 00:00 Tools
El Toro 00:00 Tools
Along Came Betty (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [1999 - Remaster] 00:00 Tools
Sweet 'n' Sour [take 4] 00:00 Tools
Bu's Delight 00:00 Tools
Message From Kenya (1989 Digital Remaster) (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 04:33 Tools
Pristine 00:00 Tools
Blues March - Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering; 1999 Digital Rema 06:25 Tools
Slide No. 2 00:00 Tools
Announcement 00:00 Tools
Sincerely Diana ( Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Circus 00:00 Tools
Theory Of Art (Remastered - 2001) 00:00 Tools
Master Mind 00:00 Tools
Salute to Birdland 00:00 Tools
A Quiet Thing 00:00 Tools
Calling Miss Khadija - Remastered 00:00 Tools
The Back Sliders 00:00 Tools
Africaine 00:00 Tools
Joelle 00:00 Tools
Carol's Interlude [alternate take] 00:00 Tools
Dat Dere (Live) 00:00 Tools
Night in Tunisia 11:17 Tools
Roots And Herbs 00:00 Tools
Announcement - Blue Note Records 00:55 Tools
Ain't Life Grand 00:00 Tools
Theme Song 00:00 Tools
Prayer by Solomon G. Ilori 00:00 Tools
Groove Street 00:00 Tools
O' Tinde 00:00 Tools
One By One - Live 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia (Remastered - 2001, Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Those Who Sit And Wait 00:00 Tools
Jodi 00:00 Tools
Announcement By Pee Wee Marquette - Live At Birdland, New York/1954 00:00 Tools
No Hay Problema (2nd Version) 00:00 Tools
Simplicity 00:00 Tools
Uptight 00:00 Tools
Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
Evans 00:00 Tools
Sleeping Dancer Sleep On 00:00 Tools
Musa's Vision 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Wee-Dot - Live 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver (Alternate Master) 00:00 Tools
Evidence (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Tippin' 00:00 Tools
Time Will Tell 00:00 Tools
Late Date 00:00 Tools
Lost And Found 00:00 Tools
Thermo [take 2] 07:28 Tools
Siempre Mi Amor 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You 00:00 Tools
No Problem (1st Version) 00:00 Tools
Hello 00:00 Tools
Close Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Never Never Land 00:00 Tools
When Lights Are Low 00:00 Tools
The Kiss of No Return 00:00 Tools
No Problem - From "Les liaisons dangereuses" 09:36 Tools
Cafe 09:52 Tools
Suspense, Tom Et Nasol 00:00 Tools
Mayreh (Live) 00:00 Tools
Futurity 00:00 Tools
Giantis 00:00 Tools
I Mean You (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Ne Chuchote Pas 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver (Live) 00:00 Tools
Couldn't It Be You? - Remastered, Take 4 00:00 Tools
Moanin’ 00:00 Tools
Three Blind Mice 00:00 Tools
The Summit 00:00 Tools
Prelude in Blue (Chez Miguel) 00:00 Tools
sweet n sour 00:00 Tools
Oh Henry 00:00 Tools
Bop Alley - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Hey World 00:00 Tools
Final Pour Pierre Et Béatrice 00:00 Tools
No Hay Problema (1st Version) 00:00 Tools
Ala Mode 00:00 Tools
Cu-Ba 00:00 Tools
Ayiko, Ayiko (Welcome, Welcome, My Darling) 00:00 Tools
Pisces 00:00 Tools
El Toro Valiente 00:00 Tools
Blue 'n' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Eva 00:00 Tools
Strictly Romantic 00:00 Tools
Johnny's Blue 00:00 Tools
Splendid 00:00 Tools
The Egyptian - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Kyoto 00:00 Tools
Scotch Blues 00:00 Tools
Faith 00:00 Tools
Blues Back 00:00 Tools
'Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
The Fuller Bop Man - Alternate Take 00:00 Tools
Theory Of Art (Remastered - 2001, Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Just Knock On My Door 00:00 Tools
The Outer World 00:00 Tools
Ugetsu - Live 00:00 Tools
Along Came Betty (Remastered) [feat. The Jazz Messengers] 06:09 Tools
Dark Side, Light Side 00:00 Tools
Evans (Remastered - 2001) 00:00 Tools
Message From Kenya - 1989 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Along Came Betty - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;1999 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Nelly Bly (Live) 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Alternate Take) - Alternate Take; Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering; 1 00:00 Tools
Blues March (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [1999 - Remaster] 00:00 Tools
El Toro Valiente' 00:00 Tools
Blues March For Europe 1 00:00 Tools
No Problem (2nd Version) 00:00 Tools
Blakey's Theme 00:00 Tools
Stardust 00:00 Tools
Wellington's Blues 00:00 Tools
Valmontana (1st Version) 00:00 Tools
Couldn't It Be You? (Remastered - 2001) 00:00 Tools
Off The Wall (Remastered - 2001, Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Nihon Bash 00:00 Tools
ETA 00:00 Tools
Pierre Et Béatrice - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Webb City 00:00 Tools
Off The Wall (Remastered - 2001) 00:00 Tools
Almost Like Being in Love 00:00 Tools
On The Street Where You Live 00:00 Tools
I Can't Get Started With You 00:00 Tools
Modamorphosis 00:00 Tools
Introduction by Jimmy Lyons 00:00 Tools
For Minors Only 00:00 Tools
Hipsippy Blues 00:00 Tools
Lover Man 00:00 Tools
Blue Ching 00:00 Tools
Sweet n Sour (take 4) 05:27 Tools
Gertrude's Bounce 00:00 Tools
Celine 00:00 Tools
E.T.A. 00:00 Tools
That Old Feeling 00:00 Tools
Come Rain Or Come Shine (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 05:47 Tools
Valmontana (2nd Version) 00:00 Tools
Moanin´ 00:00 Tools
Olympia 00:00 Tools
In The Basement 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1999 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Moanin' [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Haina 00:00 Tools
Touche 00:00 Tools
Plexis 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
Announcement By Art Blakey 00:00 Tools
Perdido 00:00 Tools
Pierre Et Beatrice 00:00 Tools
Mr. Jin - Remastered 00:00 Tools
One For Gamal 00:00 Tools
It's A Long Way Down - Remastered 00:00 Tools
Round 'Bout Midnight 00:00 Tools
Body And Soul 00:00 Tools
Without A Song 00:00 Tools
Couldn't It Be You 00:00 Tools
Blues For Two 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
Thermo - Take 2 00:00 Tools
Social Call 00:00 Tools
Sunday 00:00 Tools
The Breeze and I 00:00 Tools
Generique 00:00 Tools
Tom 00:00 Tools
In This Korner 00:00 Tools
Sweet 'n' Sour (Take 4) 00:00 Tools
Evidence [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Moanin' [alternate] 00:00 Tools
Little Hughie 00:00 Tools
I Mean You [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Fuller Love 00:00 Tools
Au Privave 00:00 Tools
This I dig of you 00:00 Tools
Valmontana 00:00 Tools
Pamela 00:00 Tools
Bous Bier 00:00 Tools
Carol's Interlude - alternate take 00:00 Tools
Oh, by the Way 00:00 Tools
Exhibit A 00:00 Tools
Introduction By Pee Wee Marquette 00:00 Tools
One For Trane 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Unlimited 00:00 Tools
Moanin' With Hazel 00:00 Tools
Buh's Bossa 00:00 Tools
Couldn't It Be You? 00:00 Tools
The New Message 00:00 Tools
Try A Little Tenderness 00:00 Tools
Xochimilco 00:00 Tools
A Night at Tony's 00:00 Tools
Sakeena 00:00 Tools
Casino 00:00 Tools
The Theme (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Feast - 2006 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Wee-Dot (Live) 00:00 Tools
'S Make It 00:00 Tools
Buttercorn Lady 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Remastered) [feat. The Jazz Messengers] 09:36 Tools
No Problem - Pt. 1 / BOF "Les liaisons dangereuses" 09:36 Tools
For Miles and Miles 00:00 Tools
Round Midnight 00:00 Tools
Blues March (Remastered) [feat. The Jazz Messengers] 09:36 Tools
Sincerely Diana (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Mission Eternal 00:00 Tools
Little T 00:00 Tools
Out Of The Past 00:00 Tools
Krafty 00:00 Tools
Little Girl Blue 00:00 Tools
Evidence - Alternate Version 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering) 00:00 Tools
On The Roof 00:00 Tools
Are You Real - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;1999 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Comment on Ritual 00:00 Tools
Along came Manon 00:00 Tools
Blue Monk - Alternate Version 00:00 Tools
Prayer 00:00 Tools
Falling in Love With Love 00:00 Tools
Soul Finger 00:00 Tools
Sam's Tune 00:00 Tools
New World 00:00 Tools
Message From Kenya (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
A Chant For Bu (Excursions) 00:00 Tools
Along Came Betty (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1999 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Warm-Up Dialogue 00:00 Tools
Right Down Front 00:00 Tools
Prelude In Blue (a "L'Esquinade") 00:00 Tools
Transfiguration 00:00 Tools
Grasshopper 00:00 Tools
The first theme 00:00 Tools
I Mean You - Alternate Version 00:00 Tools
What Know 00:00 Tools
Conception 00:00 Tools
Des Femmes Disparaissent - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
High Modes 00:00 Tools
Aghano - 2006 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
The Things I Love 00:00 Tools
Jody 00:00 Tools
1977 A.D. 00:00 Tools
How Deep Is The Ocean 00:00 Tools
The Opener 00:00 Tools
I Could Have Danced All Night 00:00 Tools
Pee Wee Marquette's Intro 00:00 Tools
Avila and Tequila 00:00 Tools
Générique - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Sleeping Dancer Sleep On (Remastered) [feat. The Jazz Messengers] 06:25 Tools
It's Only a Paper Moon (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Flight To Jordan 00:00 Tools
My Heart Stood Still 00:00 Tools
Once In A While (Live) 00:00 Tools
Time Off - Live 00:00 Tools
Wheel Within a Wheel 00:00 Tools
Are You Real (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1999 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Second Thoughts 00:00 Tools
Just Coolin' 00:00 Tools
Lamento Africano - 2006 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Deo-X 00:00 Tools
Blues March - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;1999 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
The Drum Thunder Suite - Rudy Van Gelder Edition;1999 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Free for All [*] 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Live 00:00 Tools
Prelude In Blue 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver [Alternate Take] 00:00 Tools
Secret Love 00:00 Tools
Quiksilver 00:00 Tools
Art Blakey Intro 00:00 Tools
Alone Together (Live) 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver [Alternate Master] 00:00 Tools
Night Watch 00:00 Tools
Are You Real (Remastered) [feat. The Jazz Messengers] 00:00 Tools
Sortie (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Ritual 00:00 Tools
Drum Ensemble 00:00 Tools
Secret Agent Man 00:00 Tools
Ife L'ayo 00:00 Tools
Blues Pour Vava - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver - Live At Birdland, New York/1954 00:00 Tools
Lil' T 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Alt.Take) 00:00 Tools
Between Races 00:00 Tools
The Drum Thunder Suite (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1999 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
The Drum Thunder (Miniature Suite) 00:00 Tools
Abdullah's Delight 00:00 Tools
Little Man 00:00 Tools
Spot Session 00:00 Tools
Sweet Sakeena 00:00 Tools
Yesterdays (Live) 00:00 Tools
Stanley's Stiff Chickens 00:00 Tools
Late Spring 00:00 Tools
Now's The Time - Live At Birdland, New York/1954 00:00 Tools
Mirage - 2006 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Nasol - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Art Blakey's Comments On Ritual 00:00 Tools
Blues Pour Marcel - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Merlin - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Tom - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
La Divorcee de Leo Fall 00:00 Tools
Recuerdo 00:00 Tools
Lil 'T 00:00 Tools
Once Upon a Groove 00:00 Tools
The Theme - Live 00:00 Tools
Interludes Are Great #1 00:00 Tools
Chicken An' Dumplins 00:00 Tools
Come Rain or Come Shine (Remastered) [feat. The Jazz Messengers] 00:00 Tools
The Preacher 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver (Silver) 00:00 Tools
Soulful Mister Timmons 00:00 Tools
Prélude In Blue Chez Miguel 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia - Live At Birdland, New York/1954 00:00 Tools
Deciphering the Message, Part 1 00:00 Tools
Mambo Dans La Voiture - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Announcement - Pee Wee Marquette 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Art's Revelation 00:00 Tools
Prélude In Blue A L'Esquinade - テイク1 00:00 Tools
Up Jumped Spring (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford - Olympia 58 00:00 Tools
Hi-Fly 00:00 Tools
When Love Is New (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Dinga - 2006 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
I Remember Clifford (Live) 00:00 Tools
M & M 00:00 Tools
Blues Pour Doudou - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Juste Pour Eux Seuls - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
The New Message (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
In a Sentimental Mood 00:00 Tools
Deciphering the Message, Part 2 00:00 Tools
Ping Pong (alt version) 00:00 Tools
Moon River (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
I Talk To The Trees 00:00 Tools
Moanin' (Alternate Take) (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (1999 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Now's The Time (Live At Birdland, New York/1954) 00:00 Tools
Sleeping Dancer Sleep On (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Fantasy In D 00:00 Tools
In Case You Missed It 00:00 Tools
Wake Up 00:00 Tools
United (alt version) 00:00 Tools
Are You Real- 00:00 Tools
La Divorcée De Léo Fall - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Lady Bob 00:00 Tools
They Call The Wind Maria 00:00 Tools
Swingin' Kilts - 2006 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
O' Tinde - 2006 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Quaglio - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Pasquier - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Roots & Herbs 00:00 Tools
Quicksilver (Live) - Live At Birdland, New York/1954 00:00 Tools
Love: For The One You Can't Have 00:00 Tools
Duck Soup 00:00 Tools
Bya-Ya / Epistrophy (Theme) [feat. Art Blakey] [Live At the Five Spot, New York, July 9, 1958] 00:00 Tools
Moanin' - Alternate Take;Rudy Van Gelder Edition;1999 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
The New Message (Take 2) 00:00 Tools
Final Pour Pierre et Beatrice 00:00 Tools
Ayiko, Ayiko 00:00 Tools
Darn That Dream 00:00 Tools
Off The Wall - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
Ping Pong (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Good Life 00:00 Tools
Nothing but the Soul 00:00 Tools
The Witch Doctor (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know What Love Is (Remastered) [feat. The Jazz Messengers] 00:00 Tools
Suspense, Tom Et Nasol - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Valmontana - Bof Les Liaisons Dangereuses 00:00 Tools
Backstage Sally (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
Moanin` 00:00 Tools
Waterfalls 00:00 Tools
Hippy 00:00 Tools
Lou's Blues - Live At Birdland, New York/1954 00:00 Tools
No More Goodbyes 00:00 Tools
Sincerely Diana (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2004 Digital Remaster) 08:06 Tools
Whisper Not (Live) 00:00 Tools
Reflection - 2006 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Ping-Pong - Live 00:00 Tools
Gypsy 00:00 Tools
Final Pour Pierre Et Béatrice - BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent" 00:00 Tools
Witch Hunt 00:00 Tools
Message From Kenya - 1999 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Drum Thunder (Diesler Mix) 00:00 Tools
Daydream 00:00 Tools
Rifftide 00:00 Tools
To Whom It May Concern 00:00 Tools
It's Only A Papermoon 00:00 Tools
Safari 00:00 Tools
Cheryl 00:00 Tools
Blues March For Europe - Number One 00:00 Tools
Drum Thunder Suite (Diesler Mix) 00:00 Tools
Nothing But The Soul - 1999 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Bitter Dose 00:00 Tools
Evening Lights 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia (Live) - Live At Birdland, New York/1954 00:00 Tools
The Promised Land 00:00 Tools
Minor's Holiday (Live) 00:00 Tools
Reflections in Blue 00:00 Tools
I Can't Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree 00:00 Tools
Lil 'T (aka The Third) 00:00 Tools
The Drum Thunder - Miniature, Suite 00:00 Tools
Freedom Monday 00:00 Tools
The Egyptian (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) 00:00 Tools
Backstage Sally (Alt. Version) 00:00 Tools
prayer by solomon g llori 00:00 Tools
Theory Of Art - Remastered - 2001 00:00 Tools
Got My Mojo Working 00:00 Tools
Art Blakey 00:00 Tools
The Midget (Remixed by Art Konik) 00:00 Tools
The Back Sliders (Alternate Take) 00:00 Tools
Moanin' Moanin' 00:00 Tools
On a Slow Boat to China 00:00 Tools
Wee Dot - Alternate 00:00 Tools
Moon River (Alt. Verison) 00:00 Tools
Malibu 00:00 Tools
Akiyo Akiyo 00:00 Tools
Reflections of Buhainia 00:00 Tools
Walking My Cat Named Dog 00:00 Tools
Blues March (Live) 00:00 Tools
Slide # 2 00:00 Tools
Along Came Betty - Vocal 00:00 Tools
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Are You Real (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [1999 - Remaster] 00:00 Tools
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Song for the Lonely Woman 00:00 Tools
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Thermo [Take 2][*] 00:00 Tools
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Lester Left Town (Remastered) [feat. The Jazz Messengers] 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You 00:00 Tools
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The Egyptian (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) (2003 Digital Remaster) 05:12 Tools
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Free For All (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [2004 - Remaster] 00:00 Tools
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Nice Work If You Can Get It 00:00 Tools
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Dat Dere (Remastered) [feat. The Jazz Messengers] 00:00 Tools
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Kozo's Waltz (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [2004 - Remaster] 00:00 Tools
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This Is the Life 00:00 Tools
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No Problem　「危険な関係」のブルース 00:00 Tools
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Ms B.C. 00:00 Tools
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Feeling Good 00:00 Tools
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Ne Chuchote Pas (BOF "Des Femmes Disparaissent") 00:00 Tools
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Message From Kenya - Remastered 00:00 Tools
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Bean and the Boys 00:00 Tools
Up Jumped Spring (Live) 00:00 Tools
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Unlimited - Live 00:00 Tools
Dawn On The Harvest 00:00 Tools
Miwako 00:00 Tools
Just By Myself - Olympia 58 00:00 Tools
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Are You Real (Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering) (1999 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Along Came Betty (Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering) (1999 Digital Remaster) 06:10 Tools
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Split Kick (Live At Birdland, New York,1954) 00:00 Tools
Lost & Found 00:00 Tools
There But For You Go I 00:00 Tools
A Night in Tunisia, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Dark Side, Light Side - Live 00:00 Tools
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Are You Real - Olympia 58 00:00 Tools
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The Drum Thunder Suite (Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering) (1999 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
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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 & The Jazz Messengers included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz. The band's legacy is thus not only known for the often exceptionally fine music it produced, but as a proving ground for several generations of jazz musicians; Blakey's groups are matched only by those of Miles Davis in this regard. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Legendary jazz drummer Art Blakey (1919-1990) is best known for the band he led, known as Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, which over the course of thirty years included some of the most prominent jazz musicians of the day -- including Clifford Brown, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Wynton Marsalis and Branford Marsalis. Blakey was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By the time he was a teenager he was playing the piano full-time, leading a commercial band. Shortly afterwards, he taught himself to play the drums in the aggressive swing style of Chick Webb, Sid Catlett and Ray Bauduc. He joined Mary Lou Williams as a drummer for an engagement in New York in autumn 1942. He then toured with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra (1943–4). During his years with Billy Eckstine’s big band (1944–7) Blakey became associated with the modern-jazz movement, along with his fellow band members Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Fats Navarro and others.[4] In 1947 Blakey organized the Seventeen Messengers, a rehearsal band, and recorded with an octet called the Jazz Messengers. He claimed that he then travelled to Africa. Unfortunately, no documentation has been uncovered that supports this claim. In the early 1950s he performed and broadcast with such musicians as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Clifford Brown, and particularly with Horace Silver, his kindred musical spirit of this time. Blakey and Silver recorded together on several occasions, including the album A Night at Birdland (1954, BN), having formed in 1953 a cooperative group with Hank Mobley and Kenny Dorham, retaining the name Jazz Messengers. By 1956 Silver had left and the leadership of this important band passed to Blakey, and he remained associated with it until his death. It was the archetypal hard-bop group of the late 1950s, playing a driving, aggressive extension of bop with pronounced blues roots. Over the years the Jazz Messengers served as a springboard for young jazz musicians such as Donald Byrd, Johnny Griffin, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett, Chuck Mangione, Woody Shaw, JoAnne Brackeen and Wynton Marsalis. Blakey also made a world tour in 1971–2 with the Giants of Jazz (with Dizzy Gillespie, Kai Winding, Sonny Stitt, Thelonious Monk and Al McKibbon). [4] From his earliest recording sessions with Eckstine, and particularly in his historic sessions with Monk in 1947, Blakey exuded power and originality, creating a dark cymbal sound punctuated by frequent loud snare- and bass-drum accents in triplets or cross-rhythms. Although Blakey discouraged comparison of his own music with African drumming, he adopted several African devices after his visit in 1948–9, including rapping on the side of the drum and using his elbow on the tom-tom to alter the pitch. His much-imitated trademark, the forceful closing of the hi-hat on every second and fourth beat, was part of his style from 1950 to '51. A loud and domineering drummer, Blakey also listened and responded to his soloists. His contribution to jazz as a discoverer and molder of young talent over three decades was no less significant than his very considerable innovations on his instrument. In the 1940s, Blakey was a member of bands led by Mary Lou Williams, Fletcher Henderson, and Billy Eckstine. He converted to Islam during a visit to West Africa in the late 1940s and took the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (which led to the nickname "Bu"). By the late forties and early fifties, Blakey was backing musicians such as Miles Davis, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk — he is often considered to have been Monk's most empathetic drummer, and he played on both Monk's first recording session as a leader (for Blue Note Records in 1947) and his final one (in London in 1971), as well as many in between. Up to the 1960s Blakey also recorded as a sideman with many other musicians: Jimmy Smith, Herbie Nichols, Cannonball Adderley, Grant Green, and Jazz Messengers graduates Lee Morgan and Hank Mobley, amongst many others. However, after the mid-1960s he mostly concentrated on his own work as a leader. The origins of the Messengers are in a series of groups led or co-led by Blakey and pianist Horace Silver, though the name was not used on the earliest of their recordings. The most celebrated of these early records (credited to "The Art Blakey Quintet"), is A Night at Birdland from February 1954, one of the earliest commercially released "live" jazz records. This featured Silver, Blakey, the young trumpeter Clifford Brown, alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson and bassist Curly Russell. The "Jazz Messengers" name was first used on a 1954 recording nominally led by Silver, with Blakey, Hank Mobley, Kenny Dorham and Doug Watkins — the same quintet would record The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia the following year, still as a collective. Donald Byrd replaced Dorham, and the group recorded an album called simply The Jazz Messengers for Columbia Records in 1956. Blakey took over the group name when Silver left after the band's first year (taking Mobley, Byrd and Watkins with him to form a new quintet with a variety of drummers), and the band was known as "Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers" from then onwards. From 1959 to 1961 the group featured Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Jymie Merritt, Lee Morgan, and Bobby Timmons. The second line-up (1961–1964) was a sextet that added trombonist Curtis Fuller and replaced Morgan and Timmons with Freddie Hubbard and Cedar Walton, respectively. Shorter was the musical director of the group, and many of his original compositions such as "Lester Left Town" remained staples of Blakey's repertoire even after Shorter's departure. (Other players over the years made permanent marks on Blakey's repertoire — Timmons, composer of "Dat Dere" and "Moanin'", Benny Golson, composer of "Along Came Betty" and "Are You Real", and, later, Bobby Watson.) Shorter's more experimental inclinations pushed the band at the time into an engagement with the 1960s "New Thing", as it was called: the influence of Coltrane's contemporary records on Impulse! is evident on Free For All (1964), often cited as the greatest document of the Shorter-era Messengers (and certainly one of the most fearsomely powerful examples of hard bop on record) Blakey went on to record dozens of albums with a constantly changing group of Jazz Messengers — he had a policy of encouraging young musicians: as he remarked on-mike on A Night at Birdland (1954): "I'm gonna stay with the youngsters. When these get too old I'll get some younger ones. Keeps the mind active." After weathering the fusion era in the 1970s with some difficulty (recordings from this period are less plentiful and include attempts to incorporate instruments like electric piano), Blakey's band got revitalized in the early 1980s with the advent of neotraditionalist jazz. Wynton Marsalis was for a time the band's trumpeter and musical director, and even after Marsalis's departure Blakey's band continued as a proving ground for many "Young Lions" like Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison and Kenny Garrett. Blakey continued performing and touring with the group into the late 1980s, and he died in 1990 of lung cancer in New York City, leaving behind a vast legacy and approach to jazz which is still the model for countless hard-bop players. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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