Art Blakey - Centenary of His Birth

[Brad]

Art Blakey was born 100 years ago today.   In the cover story of the November issue of JazzTimes, various artists remember him. 

 Art Blakey: Praise the Messenger

[Brad]

More from JazzTimes. 10 of his best performances:

JazzTimes 10: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

[ghost of miles]

Archived Night Lights show:

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Class Of '57

I'll be posting a new show soon devoted to 1980s editions of the Messengers.

[Brad]

22 minutes ago, ghost of miles said:

Archived Night Lights show:

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Class Of '57

I'll be posting a new show soon devoted to 1980s editions of the Messengers.

Thanks. I will check it out. 

[Justin V]

It'd be pretty difficult to overstate Blakey's impact, both on the music and me as a listener.  I just saw Ralph Peterson's Blakey tribute, with Bill Pierce, Brian Lynch, Robin Eubanks, Zaccai Curtis and Essiet Okon Essiet, last night in Blakey's hometown of Pittsburgh.  One could build quite a collection just by focusing on Blakey and his sidemen.  I'll spin some Blakey later and think of him.

 

Edited October 11, 2019 by Justin V

[danasgoodstuff]

I'd love to have a big wall-sized diagram (in the style of Pete Frame's Rock Trees) of all the Art Blakey & Horace Silver bands and interconnections between the various sideman, would take a pretty big wall I think!

[mikeweil]

54 minutes ago, danasgoodstuff said:

I'd love to have a big wall-sized diagram (in the style of Pete Frame's Rock Trees) of all the Art Blakey & Horace Silver bands and interconnections between the various sideman, would take a pretty big wall I think!

The closest thing on the web is Michael Fitzgerald's chronology of the Messengers: https://jazzmf.com/art-blakey-chronology-and-the-jazz-messengers/

[danasgoodstuff]

thanx

[felser]

My music collection has more CD's by Blakey/Messengers than by anyone else.  Got to see him live twice in the late 80's, but not before then.  

[Brad]

7 minutes ago, felser said:

My music collection has more CD's by Blakey/Messengers than by anyone else.  Got to see him live twice in the late 80's, but not before then.  

Same here, except I never saw him play. The first time I heard Moanin’, it blew my mind. Yeah, I know it’s a trite expression but I’d never heard anything like that before. 

[JSngry]

Listening to him with Monk is still a shocking experience for me. Messengers/etc., exhilarating, yes, but that Monk stuff...wow. Nobody got there with that, nobody.

[felser]

6 hours ago, Brad said:

Same here, except I never saw him play. The first time I heard Moanin’, it blew my mind. Yeah, I know it’s a trite expression but I’d never heard anything like that before. 

"Noise in the Attic" was the first thing I ever heard by him, on WRTI, and I had the same reaction.