Art Blakey discography | |
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Blakey touring in 1973 as part of The Giants of Jazz bill in the Musikhalle Hamburg | |
Studio albums | 10 |
Live albums | 3 |
Compilation albums | 4 |
Jazz Messengers | 76 |
Art Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.[1][2][3] 'Art Blakey' and 'Jazz Messengers' became synonymous over the years, though Blakey led many non-Messenger recording sessions.[4][5][6]In addition to the 76 albums which he recorded as a leader or co-leader of the Jazz Messengers, Blakey also led 10 studio albums, 3 live albums and 4 compilation sessions. A relentless performer, he continued to record as a sideman on dozens of albums, throughout his career—frequently for Messengers alumni.[6] He also led several percussion-centric albums with many of his peers.[1][6]
Studio albums[edit]
Album | Album details |
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Blakey |
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Orgy in Rhythm, Vol. 1 and 2 |
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Art Blakey Big Band |
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Holiday for Skins, Vol. 1 and 2 |
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The African Beat |
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A Jazz Message |
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Hold On, I'm Coming |
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Killer Joe | with George Kawaguchi
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Feel the Wind | with Freddie Hubbard
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Bluesiana Triangle |
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Just Coolin' |
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Live albums[edit]
Album | Album details |
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A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 |
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A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 |
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A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 |
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - At The Jazz Corner Of The World, Vol. 1 (Blue Note BLP 4015) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - At The Jazz Corner Of The World, Vol. 2 (Blue Note BLP 4016) Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers Avec Barney Wilen - Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960. Related Torrents; John Hicks Trio - Moanin' - Portrait of Art Blakey 277.41MB; New York Trio - Always (2008) SACD (2016 Venus) 2.00GB Eddie Higgins Trio - Amor (2006) SACD (2016 Venus) 2.19GB.
Compilation albums[edit]
Album | Album details | Notes |
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New Sounds |
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Horace Silver Trio, Vol. 2/Art Blakey-Sabu – Spotlight On Drums |
| Blakey and Sabu collaborated on two songs on this LP, which is filled out with the Horace Silver Trio, also including Blakey. Reissued on 12' LP BLP 1520. |
Live Messengers |
| This 2 record set contains unreleased tracks from the Night at Birdland session along with other, later, live Jazz Messengers live tracks. |
Drum Suite |
| Side one is the Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble, side two is the Jazz Messengers. |
Drums Around the Corner |
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The Jazz Messengers albums[edit]
Albums recorded as a sideman[edit]
Year | Title | Leader | Label |
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1950 | Dexter Gordon and His Boys | Dexter Gordon | Savoy(MG 9003) |
1950 | New Sound in Modern Music, Vol. 3 | Dexter Gordon | Savoy (MG 9015) |
1950 | New Sound in Modern Music, Vol. 6 | Fats Navarro | Savoy (MG 9019) |
1950 | Battle of the Saxes | Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt | Prestige(PRLP 107) |
1950 | Tenor Sax, Vol. 1 | Gene Ammons | Prestige (PRLP 112) |
1951 | Genius of Modern Music | Thelonious Monk | Blue Note(BLP 5002) |
1951 | Mr. Saxophone | Sonny Stitt | Prestige (PRLP 111) |
1951 | Sonny Stitt Favorites, Vol. 2 | Sonny Stitt | Prestige (PRLP 126) |
1951 | Gene Ammons Favorites, Vol. 2 | Gene Ammons | Prestige (PRLP 127) |
1951 | Dizzy Gillespie, Vol. 1 | Dizzy Gillespie | Dee Gee(MG 1000) |
1951 | Collates | Illinois Jacquet | Clef(MGC 112) |
1951 | Collates #2 | Illinois Jacquet | Clef (MGC 129) |
1951 | Wizard of the Vibes | Milt Jackson | Blue Note (BLP 5011) |
1951 | Swingin' with Zoot Sims | Zoot Sims | Prestige (PRLP 117) |
1951 | Tenor Sax Favorites | Zoot Sims | Prestige (PRLP 118) |
1951 | Modern Jazz Trombones, Vol. 2 | Bennie Green, J. J. Johnson | Prestige (PRLP 123) |
1951 | The New Sounds | Miles Davis | Prestige (PRLP 124) |
1951 | Mambo Jazz | Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Joe Holiday, Kenny Graham | Prestige (PRLP 135) |
1951 | Sonny Rollins Quartet | Sonny Rollins | Prestige (PRLP 137) |
1951 | Blue Period | Miles Davis | Prestige (PRLP 140) |
1952 | James Moody and his Modernists with Chano Pozo | James Moody | Blue Note (BLP 5006) |
1952 | Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 | Thelonious Monk | Blue Note (BLP 5009) |
1952 | King of the Clarinet | Buddy DeFranco | MGM(E 177) |
1952 | Zoot Sims All Stars with Kai Winding and Al Cohn | Zoot Sims | Prestige (PRLP 138) |
1952 | King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings | Annie Ross | Prestige (PRLP 7128) |
1952 | Introducing the Horace Silver Trio | Horace Silver | Blue Note (BLP 5018) |
1952 | Thelonious Monk Trio | Thelonious Monk | Prestige (PRLP 142) |
1952 | New Faces-New Sounds | Lou Donaldson | Blue Note (BLP 5021) |
1952 | Disorder at the Border | Coleman Hawkins | Spotlite (SPJ 121) [1973] |
1953 | Buddy DeFranco with Strings | Buddy DeFranco | MGM (E 253) |
1953 | Introducing the Kenny Drew Trio | Kenny Drew | Blue Note (BLP 5023) |
1953 | Buddy DeFranco Quartet | Buddy DeFranco | Clef (MGC 149) |
1953 | Miles Davis Volume 2 | Miles Davis | Blue Note (BLP 5022) |
1953 | Buddy DeFranco Takes You to the Stars | Buddy DeFranco | Gene Norman Presents(Vol. 2) |
1953 | New Star on the Horizon | Clifford Brown | Blue Note (BLP 5032) |
1953 | Introducing Paul Bley | Paul Bley | Debut(DLP 7) |
1954 | Miles Davis Volume 3 | Miles Davis | Blue Note (BLP 5040) |
1954 | Miles Davis Quartet | Miles Davis | Prestige (PRLP 161) |
1954 | Elmo Hope Quintet | Elmo Hope | Blue Note (BLP 5044) |
1954 | Thelonious Monk Quintet | Thelonious Monk | Prestige (PRLP 180) |
1954 | Sonny Rollins Quintet | Sonny Rollins | Prestige (PRLP 186) |
1954 | Lou Donaldson Sextet, Vol. 2 | Lou Donaldson | Blue Note (BLP 5055) |
1954 | Introducing Joe Gordon | Joe Gordon | EmArcy(MG 26046) |
1954 | Thelonious Monk Trio | Thelonious Monk | Prestige (PRLP 189) |
1955 | Clark Terry | Clark Terry | EmArcy (MG 36007) |
1955 | Jazz Original | Bud Powell | Norgran(MGN 1017) |
1955 | The Randy Weston Trio | Randy Weston | Riverside(RLP 2515) |
1955 | Afro-Cuban | Kenny Dorham | Blue Note (BLP5065, BLP 1535) |
1955 | Julius Watkins Sextet, Vol. 2 | Julius Watkins | Blue Note (BLP 5064) |
1955 | Hank Mobley Quartet | Hank Mobley | Blue Note (BLP 5066) |
1955 | The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 2 | Herbie Nichols | Blue Note (BLP 5069) |
1955 | Duke Jordan Trio and Quintet | Duke Jordan | Signal(S 1202) |
1955 | Gigi Gryce and Orchestra | Gigi Gryce | Signal (S 1201) |
1955 | Byrd's Eye View | Donald Byrd | Transition(TRLP J-4) |
1956 | The Unique Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Monk | Riverside (RLP 12-209) |
1956 | Metronome All-Stars 1956 | Metronome All-Stars | Clef (MGC 743) |
1957 | Plenty, Plenty Soul | Milt Jackson | Atlantic(LP 1269) |
1957 | Hank Mobley and His All Stars | Hank Mobley | Blue Note (BLP 1544) |
1957 | A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One | Jimmy Smith | Blue Note (BLP 1547) |
1957 | A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two | Jimmy Smith | Blue Note (BLP 1548) |
1957 | Blowing in from Chicago | Clifford Jordan, John Gilmore | Blue Note (BLP 1549) |
1957 | Hank Mobley Quintet | Hank Mobley | Blue Note (BLP 1550) |
1957 | Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Vol. 1 | Jimmy Smith | Blue Note (BLP 1551) |
1957 | Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Vol. 2 | Jimmy Smith | Blue Note (BLP 1552) |
1957 | The Sounds of Jimmy Smith | Jimmy Smith | Blue Note (BLP 1556) |
1957 | Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 | Sonny Rollins | Blue Note (BLP 1558) |
1957 | A Blowing Session | Johnny Griffin | Blue Note (BLP 1559) |
1957 | Monk's Music | Thelonious Monk | Riverside (RLP 12-242) |
1958 | House Party | Jimmy Smith | Blue Note (BLP 4002) |
1958 | Somethin' Else | Cannonball Adderley | Blue Note (BLP 1595) |
1958 | Minor Move | Tina Brooks | King (Japan)(GXF-3072) |
1958 | New Bottle Old Wine | Gil Evans | World Pacific(WP-1246) |
1958 | Blue Lights Volume 1 | Kenny Burrell | Blue Note (BLP 1596) |
1958 | Blue Lights Volume 2 | Kenny Burrell | Blue Note (BLP 1597) |
1958 | Things Are Getting Better | Cannonball Adderley, Milt Jackson | Riverside (RLP 12-286) |
1959 | Out of the Blue | Blue Mitchell | Riverside (RLP 12-293) |
1959 | My Conception | Sonny Clark | King (Japan) (GXF-3056) |
1959 | Swingin' | Kenny Burrell | King (Japan) (GXF-3070) |
1959 | On View at the Five Spot Cafe | Kenny Burrell | Blue Note (BLP 4021) |
1959 | Groovin' with Golson | Benny Golson | New Jazz(NJLP 8220) |
1960 | Here's Lee Morgan | Lee Morgan | Vee-Jay(NVJ2-910) |
1960 | Soul Station | Hank Mobley | Blue Note (BLP 4031) |
1960 | Comin' On! | Dizzy Reece | Blue Note (7243 5 22019 2) |
1960 | Lee-Way | Lee Morgan | Blue Note (BLP 4034) |
1960 | Soul Time | Bobby Timmons | Riverside (RLP 334) |
1960 | Second Genesis | Wayne Shorter | Vee-Jay (VJS 3057) |
1960 | Expoobident | Lee Morgan | Vee-Jay (VJLP 3015) |
1960 | Roll Call | Hank Mobley | Blue Note (BLP 4058) |
1962 | Nigeria | Grant Green | Blue Note (LT-1032) |
1962 | Congo Lament | Ike Quebec | Blue Note (LT-1089) |
1964 | Tom Cat | Lee Morgan | Blue Note (LT-1058) |
1964 | Blues Bag | Buddy DeFranco | Vee-Jay (VJLP 2506) |
1964 | I/We Had a Ball | Quincy Jones | Limelight(LM 82002) |
1971 | Giants of Jazz | Various Artists | Concord Jazz(GW 3004) |
1971 | The Giants of Jazz | Various Artists | Atlantic (SD 2-905) |
1971 | Something in Blue | Thelonious Monk | Black Lion(BL 152) |
1971 | The Man I Love | Thelonious Monk | Black Lion (BL 197) |
1977 | Illumination | Walter Davis, Jr. | Denon(DC-8553) |
1980 | Gotham City | Dexter Gordon | Columbia(JC 36853) |
1987 | Magical Trio 1 | James Williams | EmArcy (832 859 2) |
Filmography[edit]
- 1965 Live in '65 (DVD)
- 1983 Jazz at the Smithsonian
- 1986 At Ronnie Scott's London (Video)
- 1995 The Jazz Messenger (Video/DVD)
- 1998 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
- 2001 Jazz Life, Vol. 2
- 2003 Modern Jazz at the Village Vanguard
- 2003 Live from Ronnie Scott's (DVD)
- 2003 Live at the Smithsonian
- 2004 Live at Village Vanguard
Notes[edit]
- ^ abFeather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (1999). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 65. ISBN9780199729074.
- ^'Art Blakey'. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ^'Blakey, Arthur (Art; Buhaina, Abdullay Ibn; Bu)'. pabook.libraries.psu.edu. Archived from the original on 10 September 2013. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ^'Art Blakey Biography'. Bio. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ^'Art Blakey'. PBS. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ^ abcKelsey, Chris. 'Art Blakey'. All Music. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
References[edit]
- 'Art Blakey Discography'. JazzDisco.org. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
- Schwartz, Steve; Fitzgerald, Michael. 'Chronology of Art Blakey (and the Jazz Messengers)'. JazzDiscography.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
External links[edit]
- Art Blakey discography at the Jazz Discography Project, GFDL
Art Blakey Interview
Art Blakey Biography
The official Art Blakey website is owned and operated by the Estate of Art Blakey. This site provides accurate biographical information on Art Blakey’s background, his accomplishments and contributions to jazz music.
Art Blakey Discography Torrent
Art Blakey’s recordings, insight, and passion for his craft were his gift to the myriad of people around the world who were moved and inspired by his music. As he used to say, “To pass through life and miss this music is to miss out on one of the best things about living.” It is our gift and greatest honor as his children and grandchildren to keep his memory alive and to ensure that future generations do not miss out on his music.