The beginning career of jazz music legend Art Blakey was amazing. He took piano lessons at school. When he the seventh grade he played music full-time and was leading a popular band. Not too long after, he drums in the style of such players as Ray Bauduc, Chick Webb and Sid Catlett. He taught himself play.
He played with Mary Lou Williams at Kelly’s Stable in 1942. Next, with Fletcher Henderson for the next years, and he toured with. Art then went to Boston to lead a big band, then joined Billy Eckstine’s band in St. Louis. Art stayed with that band from 1944-1947.
Art was considered to be among jazz music’s finest musicians such as Fats Navarro, Miles Davis and Dexter Gordon. In 1947 when Eckstine’s band broke up, Art started the Seventeen Messengers. He would go on to have several other groups with this same name. He then went to learn all about Islamic people for over a year. By the 1950′s he performed with Clifford Brown, Miles Parker and Horace Silver.
After they performed together many times, he started another group with Horace which included Kenny Hank Mobley with the name Jazz Messengers. Horace left a year later. He was the known leader of band. The Jazz Messengers played hard-bop jazz music. The roots of which were blues music. Hard bop is a mixture of bebop with gospel and soul music. An example of this is his album Moanin’ recorded on Blue Records in 1958. They fought hard to keep black people interested in jazz, when the ballroom jazz music young musicians during the years have been influenced by this style. Jazz musicians such as Keith Jarrett, JoAnne Woody Shaw , Donald Byrd, Delfeayo, Branford and Wynton Marsalis.
In 1971 to 1972, Art world toured with the
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