
Artist
Art Blakey
Art Blakey is a jazz artist from Pittsburgh, USA. 72 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Pittsburgh, USA · Best jazz albums
- 72
- Releases
- 1952–2023
- Active years

Artist
Art Blakey is a jazz artist from Pittsburgh, USA. 72 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Pittsburgh, USA · Best jazz albums

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Hard Bop
2005

Holiday for Skins
2006

New Sounds
1952
Blues March
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One For All
2023

First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings
2021

Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World (Remastered / Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
2021

Just Coolin'
2020

At The Cafe Bohemia
2020

Paris Jam Session
2018

The Essential Art Blakey - The Columbia & RCA Years
2018

Reflections Of Buhaina
2018

The Big Beat (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
2016

A Night At Birdland (Volume 2/Live)
2014

A Night At Birdland (Volume 1/Live)
2014

Moanin' (Expanded Edition)
2013

Compact Jazz: Art Blakey
2013

Jazz Inspiration
2012

Kyoto
2011
Cu-Bop
2010

Soul Finger
2009

Blakey's Beat
2008

Keystone 3
2008

Des Femmes Disparaissent-Les Tricheurs
2008

Indestructible
2007

1958 Paris Olympia
2007

'S Make It
2007
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Caravan [Keepnews Collection]
2007

The Complete Art Blakey On Emarcy
2006

A Night In Tunisia (Remaster)
2005

Drum Suite
2005

Buhaina's Delight (Rudy Van Gelder Edition / Remastered)
2004

In Walked Sonny
2004

Africaine
2004

Free For All (Remastered / Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
2004
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2004

Des Femmes Disparaissent
2003

Columbia Jazz
2003

This is Jazz
2003

Night In Tunisia
2002
Workshop
2001

At The Cafe Bohemia (Vol. 1/The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
2001

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
2000

The Witch Doctor
1999

Drums Around The Corner
1999

The Freedom Rider
1998

Blakey 60 - Best of Art Blakey (International Only)
1998

This is Jazz # 28
1997
Orgy in Rhythm, Volumes One & Two
1997

Jazz Profile: Art Blakey
1997

Like Someone In Love
1997

Vol. 2: Mission Eternal
1995

1957 Second Edition (feat. Johnny Griffin)
1995

At The Jazz Corner Of The World
1994

Vol. 1: Child's Dance
1994

The Jazz Messengers
1994

Orgy In Rhythm
1993

Three Blind Mice
1990

The Best Of Art Blakey
1989

Ugetsu
1989
Feel the Wind
1989

Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960
1988
Live Messengers
1978
Percussion Discussion
1976
Child's Dance
1972
Hold On, I'm Coming
1966

Mosaic (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
1960
Paris 1958
1959
Orgy in Rhythm, Volume One
1957
Ritual: The Modern Jazz Messengers
1957
Orgy in Rhythm, Volume Two
1957
A Night at Birdland, Volume 1
1954
Arthur "Art" Blakey (also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina; October 11, 1919 - October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group that the drummer was associated with for the next 35 years. The Messengers were formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers "the archetypal hard-bop group of the late '50s". A relentless performer, Blakey continued to record as a sideman throughout his career--frequently for Messengers alumni. He also led several percussion-centric albums with many of his peers. Blakey was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1981), the Grammy Hall of Fame (in 1998 and 2001), and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. Childhood and early career: Blakey was born on Octob…