Brooke Blakey, Art's daughter, remembers the evening vividly ... But Art’s compassion for the young man from the neighborhood who had nearly killed him, was just beginning.

This 1981 edition of The Jazz Messengers featured some of the hottest young players ... brief tribute to a man with a huge legacy. Although much of that legacy is of Art Blakey as a mentor ...

Sponsor Message Art Blakey is a musician who featured a lot ... There's Wayne Shorter as a very young man in his early twenties. There's Freddie Hubbard, another trumpet player who's still making ...

Jazz drummer Art Blakey brought a propulsive ... Blanchard became Blakey’s musical director, and, like many of Blakey’s young recruits, began writing compositions and arrangements for the ...

Even more so than his periodic collaborator, Miles Davis, Blakey mentored more gifted young musicians ... Contemporary Art's Sherwood Auditorium. As if that weren't enough, the man who ...

It was within the sound of this music that he found "spiritual salvation" from the trials and tribulations of a young man living in a poor minority ... his skills in the city's many jam sessions. Art ...

1,' Art Blakey's recording where he had Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson, Curley Russell and Horace Silver and he talked about keeping young musicians in the band." There was a quote on the back of ...

Art Blakey, a pivotal jazz drummer and a founding father of bebop, died of lung cancer Tuesday at St. Vincent`s Hospital in New York. Mr. Blakey, who turned 71 last week, had been scheduled to ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Art Blakey ... us, `Man, I wrote a song for y’all.’ He said, `I couldn’t do it, but it’s right in your style.’ Oh okay. Of course, we never got it,” Blakey said ...