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Arthur (Art) Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
 and bandleader
Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
.

Along with Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke

Kenny Clarke was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn led to modern jazz....
 and Max Roach
Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop
Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Hard bop incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing....
 was (and remains) profoundly influential on mainstream jazz.






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Arthur (Art) Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
. Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
 and bandleader
Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a band of musicians. The term is most commonly, though not exclusively, used with a group that plays popular music as a small combo or a big band, such as one which plays jazz, blues, rhythm and blues or rock and roll music....
.

Along with Kenny Clarke
Kenny Clarke

Kenny Clarke was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn led to modern jazz....
 and Max Roach
Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history....
, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop
Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Hard bop incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing....
 was (and remains) profoundly influential on mainstream jazz. Over more than 30 years his band the Jazz Messengers included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz. The band's legacy is thus not only the often exceptionally fine music it produced, but as a proving ground for several generations of jazz musicians; Blakey's groups are matched only by those of Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
 in this regard. He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

file:Liwa-e-ahmadiyya 1-2.pngfile:Baitul Futuh.jpgThe Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is the larger community of the two arising from the Ahmadiyya founded in 1889 by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian ....
.

Early career

In the 1940s, Blakey was a member of bands led by Mary Lou Williams
Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams was an United States jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams had written hundreds of compositions or arrangements, and recorded over a hundred records ....
, Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson

Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. was an United States pianist, bandleader, arrangement and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and Swing ....
, and Billy Eckstine
Billy Eckstine

William Clarence ?Billy? Eckstein was an American singer of ballads and bandleader of the Swing Era. Eckstine's smooth baritone and distinctive vibrato broke down barriers throughout the 1940s, first as leader of the original bop big-band, then as the first romantic black male in popular music....
. He converted to Islam
Islam

Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
 during a visit to West Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 in the late 1940s and took the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (which led to the nickname "Bu"). By the late forties and early fifties, Blakey was backing musicians such as Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
, Bud Powell
Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz piano. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bebop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk....
 and Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
 — he is often considered to have been Monk's most sympathetic drummer, and he played on both Monk's first recording session as a leader (for Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards....
 in 1947) and his final one (in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 in 1971), as well as many in between.

The Jazz Messengers

The origins of the Messengers are in a series of groups led or co-led by Blakey and pianist Horace Silver
Horace Silver

Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio, Cape Verde in Cape Verde....
, though the name was not used on the earliest of their recordings. The most celebrated of these early records (credited to "The Art Blakey Quintet"), is A Night at Birdland from February 1954, one of the earliest commercially released "live" jazz records. This featured Silver, Blakey, the young trumpeter Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown , aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated United States jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings....
, alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson

Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker....
 and bassist Curly Russell. The "Jazz Messengers" name was first used on a 1954 recording nominally led by Silver, with Blakey, Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley

Henry Mobley was an United States hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz....
, Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham

McKinley Howard Dorham was an United States jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas....
 and Doug Watkins
Doug Watkins

Douglas Watkins was an United States hard bop jazz double bassist from Detroit.An original member of the Art Blakey, he later played in Horace Silver's quintet and freelanced with Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, and Phil Woods among countless others....
 — the same quintet would record The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia the following year, still as a collective. Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd

Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II is an United States jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter.BiographyEarly life and education...
 replaced Dorham, and the group recorded an album called simply The Jazz Messengers for Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
 in 1956. Blakey took over the group name when Silver left after the band's first year (taking Mobley, Byrd and Watkins with him to form a new quintet with a variety of drummers), and the band was known as "Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers" from then onwards.

From 1959 to 1961 the group featured Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is an United States jazz composer and saxophone, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz saxophonists and composers since the 1960s....
 on tenor saxophone, Jymie Merritt
Jymie Merritt

Jymie Merritt is an United States hard bop double-bassist, and a father of a bassist, Mike Merritt, from Late Night with Conan O'Brien....
, Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
, and Bobby Timmons
Bobby Timmons

Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an United States jazz pianist and composer. He is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his distinctive Gospel music soul-jazz style....
. The second (1961-1964) was a sextet that added trombonist Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller is a United States of America hard bop trombone, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers....
 and replaced Morgan and Timmons with Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was an United States jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60s and on....
 and Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton

Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an United States hard bop jazz pianist....
, respectively. Shorter was the musical director of the group, and many of his original compositions such as "Lester Left Town" remained staples of Blakey's repertoire even after Shorter's departure. (Other players over the years made permanent marks on Blakey's repertoire — Timmons, composer of "Dat Dere" and "Moanin'", Benny Golson
Benny Golson

Benny Golson is an United States bebop/hard bop jazz Tenor saxophone, composer, and arranger....
, composer of "Along Came Betty" and "Are You Real", and, later, Bobby Watson.) Shorter's more experimental inclinations pushed the band at the time into an engagement with the 1960's "New Thing", as it was called: the influence of Coltrane's contemporary records on Impulse! is evident on Free For All (1964), often cited as the greatest document of the Shorter-era Messengers (and certainly one of the most fearsomely powerful examples of hard bop
Hard bop

Hard bop is a style of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Hard bop incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing....
 on record).

Later career

Blakey went on to record dozens of albums with a constantly changing group of Jazz Messengers — he had a policy of encouraging young musicians: as he remarked on-mike on A Night at Birdland (1954): "I'm gonna stay with the youngsters. When these get too old I'll get some younger ones. Keeps the mind active."After weathering the fusion era in the 1970s with some difficulty (recordings from this period are less plentiful and include attempts to incorporate instruments like electric piano), Blakey's band got a shot in the arm in the early 1980s with the advent of neotraditionalist jazz. Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is an United States trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in European classical music....
 was for a time the band's trumpeter and musical director, and even after Marsalis's departure Blakey's band continued as a proving ground for many "Young Lions" like Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard

Terence Blanchard is an internationally renowned jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and Golden Globe-nominated film score composer....
, Donald Harrison
Donald Harrison

Donald Harrison Jr. is an United States jazz saxophone....
 and Kenny Garrett
Kenny Garrett

Kenny Garrett is an United States post bop jazz Saxophone and flutist. He was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 9, 1960. His father was a carpenter who played tenor saxophone as a hobby....
. Blakey continued performing and touring with the group into the late 1980s, and he died in 1990 of lung cancer in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, leaving behind a vast legacy and approach to jazz which is still the model for countless hard-bop players.

Up to the 1960s Blakey also recorded as a sideman with many other musicians: Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith (musician)

Jimmy Smith was a jazz musician whose performances on the Hammond B3 electric organ helped to popularize this instrument. In 2005, Jimmy Smith was awarded the NEA Jazz Masters from the National Endowment for the Arts, the highest honors that the United States bestows upon jazz musicians....
, Herbie Nichols
Herbie Nichols

Herbie Nichols , was an American jazz pianist and composer. Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly regarded by many musicians and critics....
, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis
Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
, Grant Green
Grant Green

Grant Green was a jazz guitarist and composer.Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records Green performed well in hard bop, soul jazz, bebop and latin jazz-tinged settings throughout his career....
, and Jazz Messengers graduates Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
 and Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley

Henry Mobley was an United States hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz....
, amongst many others. However, after the mid-1960s he mostly concentrated on his own work as a leader.

Jazz Messengers alumni

Piano John Hicks
John Hicks (jazz pianist)

John Josephus Hicks, Jr. was an American jazz pianist and composer, active in the New York and international jazz scene for over 40 years.He studied music at Lincoln University in Missouri and Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts before moving to New York in 1963....
, Benny Green
Benny Green (pianist)

Benny Green is a hard bop jazz pianist who "graduated" from Art Blakey#The Jazz Messengers. He has been compared to Bud Powell in style and counts him as an influence....
, Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett is an United States pianist, composer and jazz icon.His career started with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in both classical music and jazz, as a group leader and a solo performer....
, Joanne Brackeen
Joanne Brackeen

Joanne Brackeen is an American jazz piano and music educator.She was born Joanne Grogan in Ventura, California. She attended the California Institute of the Arts, but devoted herself to jazz by imitating Frankie Carle albums....
, Cedar Walton
Cedar Walton

Cedar Anthony Walton, Junior is an United States hard bop jazz pianist....
, Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller

Mulgrew Miller is an United States jazz pianist born in 1955 in Greenwood, Mississippi who performs in a number of jazz idioms....
, Bobby Timmons
Bobby Timmons

Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an United States jazz pianist and composer. He is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his distinctive Gospel music soul-jazz style....
, Horace Silver
Horace Silver

Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer. His father, who was known as John Tavares Silva, was from the island of Maio, Cape Verde in Cape Verde....
, Donald Brown
Donald Brown

Donald E. Brown is an United States professor of anthropology . He worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known for his theoretical work regarding the existence, characteristics and relevance of universals of human nature....
, Walter Davis
Walter Davis

Walter Davis may refer to:* Walter Davis , American basketball player* Walter "Buddy" Davis , American basketball player and high-jumper* Walter Davis , triple-jumper...
, James Williams Johnny O'Neal 1982-83 Reeds Jackie McLean
Jackie McLean

John Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City....
, Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter is an United States jazz composer and saxophone, commonly regarded as one of the most important American jazz saxophonists and composers since the 1960s....
, Hank Mobley
Hank Mobley

Henry Mobley was an United States hard bop and soul jazz tenor saxophonist and composer. Mobley was described by Leonard Feather as the "middleweight champion of the tenor saxophone", a metaphor used to describe his tone that was neither as aggressive as John Coltrane nor as mellow as Stan Getz....
, Johnny Griffin
Johnny Griffin

John Arnold Griffin III was an United States bebop and hard bop tenor saxophonist....
, Benny Golson
Benny Golson

Benny Golson is an United States bebop/hard bop jazz Tenor saxophone, composer, and arranger....
, John Gilmore
John Gilmore (musician)

John Gilmore was an American jazz tenor saxophone player best-known for his long tenure as a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra. Aside from his primary instrument of tenor sax, Gilmore occasionally played bass clarinet and percussion....
, Branford Marsalis
Branford Marsalis

Branford Marsalis is an United States saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque....
, Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz is an United States alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist....
, Billy Harper
Billy Harper

Billy Harper is a Jazz saxophonist, "one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists" with a distinctively stern, hard-as-nails sound on his instrument....
, Donald Harrison
Donald Harrison

Donald Harrison Jr. is an United States jazz saxophone....
, Bobby Watson
Bobby Watson

Bobby Watson is an United States post-bop jazz Alto saxophone, composer, producer, and educator....
, Dale Barlow
Dale Barlow

Dale Barlow is an Australian jazz composer, tenor saxophone and soprano saxophone most noteworthy for his work with Sonny Stitt, Art Blakey, Richie Cole, Cedar Walton, Indra Lesmana, Billy Cobham, Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Higgins....
, Lou Donaldson
Lou Donaldson

Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker....
, Bill Pierce
Bill Pierce

Bill Pierce is an United States jazz saxophone. He played with Art Blakey in the early 1980s and in Tony Williams quintet in the mid-1980s to early 1990s in music....
, David Schnitter
David Schnitter

David Schnitter is an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist.Schnitter played clarinet as a youth and switched to tenor sax at age 15. After moving to New York City he played with Ted Dunbar and then became a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1974 to 1979....
, Javon Jackson Trumpet Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Learson Marsalis is an United States trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in European classical music....
, Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan

Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
, Chuck Mangione
Chuck Mangione

Charles Frank "Chuck" Mangione is an American flugelhorn player and composer who achieved international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single, "Feels So Good "....
, Clifford Brown
Clifford Brown

Clifford Brown , aka "Brownie," was an influential and highly rated United States jazz trumpeter. He died aged 25, leaving behind only four years' worth of recordings....
, Woody Shaw
Woody Shaw

Woody Herman Shaw II was a jazz trumpeter and composer....
, Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was an United States jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60s and on....
, Donald Byrd
Donald Byrd

Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II is an United States jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter.BiographyEarly life and education...
, Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard

Terence Blanchard is an internationally renowned jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and Golden Globe-nominated film score composer....
, Brian Lynch
Brian Lynch (musician)

Brian Lynch is a Grammy Award-winning New York based Jazz trumpeter, currently touring and recording as a member of the Phil Woods Quintet and Eddie Palmieri's Afro-Caribbean Jazz group, as well as leading his own groups and appearing with various other bands including the "Latin Side Of Miles" project he co-leads with trombonist Conrad Herw...
, Kenny Dorham
Kenny Dorham

McKinley Howard Dorham was an United States jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer born in Fairfield, Texas....
, Bill Hardman
Bill Hardman

William Franklin Hardman, Jr. was an United States jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist who chiefly played hard bop.While in high school he appeared with Tadd Dameron, and after graduating he joined Tiny Bradshaw's band....
, Valery Ponomarev
Valery Ponomarev

Valery Ponomarev is a Russian born jazz trumpeter. He has lived in the United States since 1973.He became interested in jazz after hearing it on Voice of America and felt a particular affinity for Clifford Brown....
 Trombone Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller

Curtis DuBois Fuller is a United States of America hard bop trombone, known as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers....
, Robin Eubanks
Robin Eubanks

Robin Eubanks is an United States jazz slide Trombone.The brother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks and trumpeter Duane Eubanks, Robin first appeared on the jazz scene in 1980, playing with Slide Hampton, Sun Ra, and Stevie Wonder....
 Bass Spanky DeBrest
Spanky DeBrest

Jimmy "Spanky" DeBrest was an American jazz double bass.DeBrest played with Lee Morgan in his early years in Philadelphia. In 1957 he was a member of Ray Draper's Quintet, Jackie McLean, pianist Mal Waldron, and drummer Ben Dixon ....
, Jymie Merritt
Jymie Merritt

Jymie Merritt is an United States hard bop double-bassist, and a father of a bassist, Mike Merritt, from Late Night with Conan O'Brien....
, Doug Watkins
Doug Watkins

Douglas Watkins was an United States hard bop jazz double bassist from Detroit.An original member of the Art Blakey, he later played in Horace Silver's quintet and freelanced with Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Art Farmer, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, and Phil Woods among countless others....
, Curly Russell, Charles Farmbrough, Dennis Irwin
Dennis Irwin

Dennis Irwin was an United States jazz double bassist. He toured and recorded with John Scofield and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra among others, and played on over 500 albums....
, Reggie Workman
Reggie Workman

Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an United States avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his important work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey....
 Guitar Kevin Eubanks
Kevin Eubanks

Kevin Tyrone Eubanks , is a jazz guitarist who has been the leader of the Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno since 1995. He composed the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno's closing theme music, "Kevin's Country," in 1992....


Awards

  • Jazz Mobile Development and Preservation of Jazz (1970)
  • Newport Jazz Festival Hall of Fame
    Newport Jazz Festival

    The Newport Jazz Festival is a music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island, USA. It was established in 1954 by the jazz impresario George Wein, prompted by socialite Elaine Lorillard, whose wealthy husband helped finance the festival's startup....
     (1976)
  • Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame
    Down Beat

    Down Beat is an United States magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond" to indicate its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years....
     Reader's Choice Award (1981)
  • Smithsonian Performing Arts Certificate of Appreciation (1982)
  • Lee Morgan Memorial Award (1982)
  • Jazz Hall of Fame
    Jazz hall of fame

    The term Jazz hall of fame can refer to the following institutions:* Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame * The Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame , a defunct annual recognition by a non-profit organization based in North San Diego County, California...
     Induction (1982)
  • Grammy Award
    Grammy Award

    The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
     Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group (1984) for the album New York Scene
  • Jazznote Award (1986)
  • Doctorate of Music (1987; Berklee College of Music
    Berklee College of Music

    Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It has an enrollment of approximately 4,000 students and a 2008 faculty of approximately 500....
    )
  • Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award (1991)
  • Grammy Hall of Fame Induction for the album Moanin (2001)
  • Pittsburgh Jazz Festival Award
  • Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
    Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

    The Grammy Award Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording" ....
     (2005; awarded posthumously)


Discography


External links

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