Jazz
Art Blakey Drums
Clifford Brown Trumpet
Bill Hardman Trumpet
Freddie Hubbard Trumpet
Wynton Marsalis Trumpet
Lee Morgan Trumpet
Curtis Fuller Trombone
Lou Donaldson Alto Saxophone
Bobby Watson Alto Saxophone
Benny Golson Tenor Saxophone
Johnny Griffin Tenor Saxophone
Hank Mobley Tenor Saxophone
Bill Pierce Tenor Saxophone
Wayne Shorter Tenor Saxophone
Thelonious Monk Piano
Horace Silver Piano
Bobby Timmons Piano
Cedar Walton Piano
James Williams Piano
Spanky DeBrest Bass
Charles Fambrough Bass
Jymie Merritt Bass
Curly Russell Bass
Doug Watkins Bass
Reggie Workman Bass
Art Blakey is powerful signature sound; the quintessential drive of his quintets and sextets; his irrepressible smiling face behind the drums. With these elements, Art Blakey completely defined the classic hard bop unit. His unstoppably propulsive style of play was forged of the most durable raw materials so much so that it' s sometimes forgotten that he had apprenticed in the big bands of the late Thirties had early Forties.
But it was the consolidation of bebop' s advances in New York by the mid-Fifties that enabled Blakey to establish his Jazz Messengers. Once on their way, they never veered from the fiery small-combo format. And one great soloist and composer after another joined the unit, burned at his brightest, and then graduated to form his own group. |
