Art Blakey

Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, Arthur Blakey

American jazz drummer and bandleader (1919–1990)

Person · Open Library

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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: United States
Active from: 1919
Active to: 1990

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 392,757
Total plays: 3,391,295

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Music

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Quotes

“[On a live performance] If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing.”
“[S]o go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.”

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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

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Works in European collections

5 objects attributed to Art Blakey, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

The Freedom Rider / Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers

Best of blakey 60 / The Jazz Messengers

Live in Holland 1958 / Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Avis tres-importants pour les peres et meres qui ont des enfans à soigner.‎ Par M. Blakey, du College royal de Chirurgie, à Paris.‎ Sixieme édition.

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Encyclopedic overview

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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