Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson... Wikipedia
Born: October 11, 1919, Pittsburgh, PA
Died: October 16, 1990 (age 71 years), Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, New York, NY
Children: Art Blakey Jr.
Music groups: The Jazz Messengers (1954 – 1990) and The Giants of Jazz
Parents: Bertrand Blakey and Marie Roddicker
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