Art Blakey
American jazz drummer and bandleader
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
Songs
Moanin’
Along Came Betty
Blues March
Are You Real?
A Night In Tunisia
A La Mode
Dat Dere
A Night in Tunisia
Free For All
The Drum Thunder Suite
Soul Station
Nica's Dream
So Tired
Les liaisons dangereuses: No Problem
Off Minor
Split Kick
Whisper Not
Come Out and Meet Me Tonight
Crisis
You Don't Know What Love Is
Quicksilver
Monk's Dream
Epistrophy
MS B.C.
Quick Trick
Tin Tin Deo
Mood Elevation
Close Your Eyes
Lester Left Town
This I Dig of You
Everything Happens to Me
Justoce
Albums