Art Blakey

ALBUM

Una raccolta completa degli album di Art Blakey, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.

On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters - Kenny Burrell, Art Blakey

Kenny Burrell, Art Blakey

On View At The Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters

2CD
  • Vinile
  • CD
Ugetsu - The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey

The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey

Ugetsu

  • Vinile
The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 & 2 - Herbie Nichols, Herbie Nichols, Al McKibbon

Herbie Nichols, Herbie Nichols, Al McKibbon

The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 1 & 2

  • Vinile
The Witch Doctor - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

The Witch Doctor

Blue Note Tone Poet Series
  • Vinile
Soul Finger - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Soul Finger

Japanese LPR
  • Digitale
The Complete Art Blakey On Emarcy - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

The Complete Art Blakey On Emarcy

  • Digitale
Compact Jazz: Art Blakey - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Compact Jazz: Art Blakey

  • Digitale
Ritual - The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey

The Jazz Messengers, Art Blakey

Ritual

  • Digitale
New Sounds - Art Blakey, James Moody

Art Blakey, James Moody

New Sounds

  • Digitale
Soul Time - Bobby Timmons, Art Blakey, Blue Mitchell

Bobby Timmons, Art Blakey, Blue Mitchell

Soul Time

  • Digitale
Sonny Rollins With The Modern Jazz Quartet - Sonny Rollins, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Art Blakey

Sonny Rollins, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Art Blakey

Sonny Rollins With The Modern Jazz Quartet

Hi Res [192/24]
  • Digitale
Horace Silver Quintet - Horace Silver Quintet, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley

Horace Silver Quintet, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley

Horace Silver Quintet

MFiT
  • Digitale
A Night At Birdland - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

A Night At Birdland

Live At Birdland, New York/1954/Volume 1
  • Digitale
New Star On The Horizon - Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Charlie Rouse

Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Charlie Rouse

New Star On The Horizon

Optimized For Digital
  • Digitale
Jazz Inspiration - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Jazz Inspiration

  • Digitale
Jazz Messengers!!!!! / A Jazz Message - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Jazz Messengers!!!!! / A Jazz Message

  • Digitale
Olympia Concert - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Olympia Concert

  • Digitale
Kyoto - Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers

Kyoto

  • Digitale
Blakey's Beat - Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers

Blakey's Beat

  • Digitale
Paris Jam Session - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Paris Jam Session

  • CD
  • Digitale
1958 Paris Olympia - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

1958 Paris Olympia

  • Digitale
Keystone 3 - Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers

Keystone 3

  • Digitale
Ugetsu - Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers

Art Blakey, The Jazz Messengers

Ugetsu

  • Digitale
Holiday For Skins - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Holiday For Skins

  • Digitale
'S Make It - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

'S Make It

LPR
  • Digitale
Des Femmes Disparaissent - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Des Femmes Disparaissent

  • Digitale
Lee-Way - Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Bobby Timmons

Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Bobby Timmons

Lee-Way

  • Digitale
Six Views Of The Blues - Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey, Donald Bailey

Jimmy Smith, Art Blakey, Donald Bailey

Six Views Of The Blues

  • Digitale
Drums Around The Corner - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Drums Around The Corner

  • Digitale
Blakey 60 - Best of Art Blakey (International Only) - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Blakey 60 - Best of Art Blakey (International Only)

  • Digitale
Orgy In Rhythm - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Orgy In Rhythm

Volumes One & Two
  • Digitale
Jazz Profile: Art Blakey - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Jazz Profile: Art Blakey

  • Digitale
Three Blind Mice - Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Three Blind Mice

Vol. 2
  • Digitale

BIOGRAFIA



Art Blakey escaped the noise, tumult, and danger of the coal mines and steel mills of Pittsburgh into a life of music, carrying with him a volcanic force. Blakey often told people that he had no childhood. At fourteen he was working among the blast furnaces in the daytime, moonlighting in clubs as a pianist, leading a professional dance, band and trying to finish high school. He was a husband and father at fifteen. He said that he switched instruments when another Pittsburgh youngster, Erroll Garner, showed him up at the piano and the tough guy who ran the club ordered Blakey to play the drums.

At eighteen, Blakey took his own big band west. Broke and stranded, he returned to Pittsburgh, eventually joining Mary Lou Williams, the brilliant pianist and arranger, who had formed her own group after years with Andy Kirk’s band. He toured with Fletcher Henderson’s band, then led his own big band in Boston for a time in 1944. He left for St. Louis at the call of vocalist Billy Eckstine, whose band was a hothouse for the development of modern jazz in the transition from swing to bebop. Among Blakey’s colleagues at various times with Eckstine were a budding Who’s Who of the new music: Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Budd Johnson, Wardell Gray, Lucky Thompson, Gene Ammons, Sarah Vaughan, and Sonny Stitt.

The unrelenting power and aggressiveness of his swing were matched by an independence of limbs that he used to set up polyrhythms with subtleties that a corps of drummers could not have duplicated. Taking to heart Sid Catlett’s admonition to "just roll," Blakey developed a press roll so exquisitely forceful and so unmistakably his that drum manuals give it a formal name, the Blakey Press Roll. His crisp hi-hat cymbal claps on the second and fourth beats, his accents using triplets and offbeat interjections, the irresistible tidal movement of his beat, electrified musicians and audiences.

After Eckstine disbanded in 1947, Blakey formed the first of his many groups incorporating the name Messengers: a rehearsal band called the Seventeen Messengers. He also recorded that year with an octet, the Jazz Messengers; that was to become the name of his groups beginning in 1955. He established another career pattern in 1947: the employment of young musicians he spotted as full of talent and promise. In the big band was seventeen-year-old Sonny Rollins. The octet included trumpeter Kenny Dorham, saxophonist Sahib Shihab, and pianist Walter Bishop.

"Yes, sir," Blakey told the audience for a celebrated recording date at Birdland in 1954. "I’m gonna stay with the youngsters. When these get too old, I’m gonna get some younger ones. Keeps the mind active." He was a doddering thirty-four-year-old.

The youngsters in that instance were trumpeter Clifford Brown, alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson and pianist Horace Silver, all of whom graduated from Blakey’s finishing school to become major figures. The other member of the band was bassist Curly Russell, a senior citizen nearly as old as Blakey. In that edition of his band, Blakey began tending toward what would come to be known as hard bop: jazz heavily invested with blues harmonies and gospel feeling. By the next edition, Blakey and Silver had established hard bop, and it became a crucible in which Blakey for more than three decades forged young musicians who populated the jazz scene and in many cases lead it today. Here are some of their names:

Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, Jymie Merritt, Lee Morgan, Jackie McLean, Bill Hardman, Benny Golson, Johnny Griffin, Bobby Timmons, Keith Jarrett, Chuck Mangione, Woody Shaw, Walter Davis, Joanne Brackeen, Ronnie Matthews, John Hicks, Victor Sproles, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Dennis Irwin, Bobby Watson, Brian Lynch, Frank Lacy, Bennie Green, Geoff Keezer, Mulgrew Miller, Terence Blanchard, Kenny Garrett, Donald Harrison, Philip Harper, Peter Washington, Billy Harper, Gary Bartz, Bill Pierce, Lonnie Plaxico.

Blakey’s instruction in the essentials of jazz and life helped to shape those musicians. Many of them, in turn, are bandleaders and style setters influencing the course of the music in a century Blakey did not live to see.

He died in 1990, but Art Blakey will be with us for a long time.

Doug Ramsey

May 2000

Excerpted from Ken Burns’ Jazz: The Definitive Art Blakey 314 549 089-2

Courtesy of The Verve Music Goup

ULTIME NEWS

"... una colata lavica di grande jazz": 'BUSCADERO' recensisce "Just Coolin'" di Art Blakey
08.07.2020

"... una colata lavica di grande jazz": 'BUSCADERO' recensisce "Just Coolin'" di Art Blakey

"E proprio da una colata lavica di grande jazz veniamo investiti grazie a questa piacevolissima scoperta che ci fa ri-innamorare dell’unicità di questa musica." Così Buscadero conclude la lunga recensione (quattro stelle, nel numero di luglio in edicola) di #JustCoolin, la seduta di registrazione in studio inedita dei Jazz Messengers di Art Blakey - Blue Note Records. L'album uscirà il 17 luglio in #CD e #vinile: non perdere questa nuova gemma Blue Note Records,, prenotala subito!
 
L'ultimo Thelonious Monk, dal vivo con Art Blakey
26.09.2008

L'ultimo Thelonious Monk, dal vivo con Art Blakey

Correva l'anno 1972: il 16 settembre al Monterey Jazz Festival era di scena il noto gruppo dei Jazz Giants, alla seconda tourneé dopo quella dell'anno precedente. In questa occasione alla tromba non c'era Dizzy Gillespie, rimpiazzato da una coppia esplosiva: Roy Eldridge e Clark Terry, che duettarono / duellarono sulle note di Perdido e di A Night in Tunisia. Ma un ulteriore motivo di interesse sta nel fatto che al pianoforte c'era Thelonious Monk, a pochi mesi dal ritiro dalle scene (e dalla vita attiva: la sua psiche sofferente lo portò a richiudersi in se stesso. Si mise a letto, e non parlò più pressoché con nessuno fino alla scomparsa, avvenuta dieci anni dopo nel 1982). In questo concerto Monk suona ai massimi livelli, anche su temi per lui ormai desueti (come il già citato Perdido), che lo riportano agli anni degli esordi. Ma, ancora una volta, a dispetto delle tante versioni registrate negli anni, è ancora la sua 'Round Midnight a mandare i bagliori più sinistri: forse una delle migliori versioni live di sempre. La notte stava per scendere sulla mente di uno dei più grandi creatori della storia del jazz, e questo canto del cigno resta un grande regalo per gli appassionati.
 
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