Head Man Posted August 14, 2013 Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 It seems that this is the only Art Blakey biography in print at the moment Can anyone recommend it (or not)...or recommend something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted August 14, 2013 Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 this thread looks familiar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Man Posted August 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 this thread looks familiar. Is that a recommendation....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted August 14, 2013 Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 Alan Goldsher: Hard Bop Academy (The Sidemen Of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers) is pretty good. I haven't read the Gourse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted August 14, 2013 Report Share Posted August 14, 2013 The Goldsher book is excellent, but it's actually a sort of encyclopedia covering all of the musicians who played in the Messengers over the years... invaluable in that respect, but not really a Blakey biography. Like jlhoots I haven't read the Gourse. Has it ever been established whether Blakey actually went to Africa in the late 1940s or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted August 15, 2013 Report Share Posted August 15, 2013 There's this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0982455127 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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