MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers As a hot young drummer in the ‘40s, Art Blakey -- like many new musicians at the time -- became infatuated with the latest jazz style, bebop. Unlike a lot of those musicians, Blakey never dropped bop, sticking with it through decades of jazz fads and using his Jazz Messengers to school scores of young players in the style. Many of them became superstars on their own, giving Blakey a legacy as formidable as many other, more innovative jazzmen. A Pittsburgh native, Blakey started on piano but switched to drums as a teenager, and got his first big break when he was asked to join Billy Eckstine’s big band in 1944. There, he met and played alongside future legends like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, all of whom would be key figures in the birth of bop, and honed the hard-charging, powerhouse drumming style that’d become his trademark. Blakey left Eckstine in 1947 and played with an octet dubbed the Jazz Messengers; he also hooked up with pianist Horace Silver, who led a group called the Jazz Messengers with Blakey, saxophonist Hank Mobley and trumpeter Kenny Dorham in 1955. But Silver left after a year and Blakey kept the Messengers tag, beginning more than 40 years of recruiting young blood to fill out the band. All all-star roster of names passed through the Messengers lineup over the years -- everyone from saxmen Wayne Shorter and Jackie McLean to trumpeters Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan and Donald Byrd to pianists Keith Jarrett and Cedar Walton. Even fusion guru Chuck Mangione put in some time as a Jazz Messenger, as did a pair of brothers who’d cement Blakey’s rep in the ‘80s: Wynton and Branford Marsalis. When he died in 1990 just after his 71st birthday, Blakey left behind a jazz world that had tried freeform, fusion and funk, and had finally come around to his way of thinking: bop is best.     Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Now's The Time MP3 Jazz You can’t top the bop chops of Art and Co. as they bash & swing through Birdland on this Charlie Parker classic.
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