Art Blakey

Arthur (Art) Blakey (* October 11th 1919, † October 16th 1990), known also under the name of Abdullah Ibn Buhaina is a Batteur and Leader of American Jazz .

It is with Kenny Clarke and max Roach one of the inventors of a modern style of battery and Bebop.

Biography

In the Years 1940, Art Blakey plays in the orchestras of Mary Lou Williams, Fletcher Henderson, and Billy Eckstine. It converts with the Islam during a long stay into West Africa, at the end of the Années 1940 and takes the name of Abdullah Ibn Buhaina .

Cantor of the Hardware bop and the Drunk jazz, it is, in 1955, with Horace Silver the creator of the group of Hard bop of the “Jazz Messengers”, of which there remained the leader, the mentor and the discoverer of young talents during more than thirty years, so that the name and the career of Blakey are strongly associated there. Thanks to him and for the first time in the history of the jazz, the battery, in the beginning instrument guide, becomes an instrument Soliste and director. Throughout its career, Art Blakey enjoys an immense popularity in France.

Discography

Vidéos

2004 Live At Village Vanguard
2003 Live At the Smithsonian
2003 Live from Ronnie Scott' S (DVD)
2003 Modern Jazz At the Village Vanguard
2001 Life Jazz, vol. 2
1998 Art Blakey' S Jazz Messengers
1995 The Jazz Messenger (Video/DVD)
1986 At Ronnie Scott' S London (Video)
1983 Jazz At the Smithsonian

External bonds

Discographie supplements Art Blakey

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