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Art Blakey - Holiday For Skins Vol. 2 (Vinyl)

Art Blakey - Holiday For Skins Vol. 2 (Vinyl)

Artist: Art Blakey

Music Genre: Jazz

Cat No
BLP 4005
Released
2024
Pressing
Worldwide
Styles
Hard Bop

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ArtistArt Blakey
FormatVinyl
LabelRat Pack Records
Catalogue no.BLP 4005
GenreJazz
Released15 March 2024
Barcode3700477836801

Art Blakey — Holiday For Skins Vol. 2
Format: Vinyl • Label: Rat Pack Records (2) (BLP 4005) • Released: 2024 • Pressing: Worldwide • Genre: Hard Bop

Tracklist:
A1. O'Tinde
A2. Swingin' Kilts
B1. Dinga
B2. Reflection

Imported from the UK.

About the artist

American jazz drummer, composer and leader
Born October 11, 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, died October 16, 1990 in New York City, New York, USA

He was best known as leader of The Jazz Messengers.
Blakey was the foster son in a Seventh Day Adventist Family, learning the piano as he learned the Bible, mastering both at an early age. In the early 1930's, while gigging at the Democratic Club in Pittsburgh, his piano career came to an abrupt end when he was ordered onto the drums to make way for pianist Erroll Garner. This incident was apparently at the gunpoint of the nightclub's owner, as Blakey often recalled. This had the side effect of Blakey coming under the tutelage of drummer and bandleader Chick Webb, serving as Webb's valet. Returning to Pittsburgh in 1937, he formed his own band, backing pianist Mary Lou Williams. In 1939, he joined and toured with Fletcher Henderson for 3 years, followed by a year gigging at Boston's Tic Toc club. Then, working for Billy Eckstine, he played with the performed with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan. When Eckstine disbanded his group in 1947, Blakey organized the Seventeen Messengers, a rehearsal band, and recorded with an octet called the Jazz Messengers, the first of his many groups bearing this name. In 1948, he visited Africa where he learned polyrhythmic drumming and was introduced to Islam, taking the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina.
The early 1950's, saw him performing and broadcasting with such musicians as Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, and Horace Silver. Blakey and Silver connected and formed the Jazz Messengers. This band soon evolved into Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, in which Blakey was the sole leader with varying personnel, remaining his principal group until his death. From 1947 to 1972, he recorded intermittently with Thelonious Monk.
Blakey was a major figure in modern jazz and a significant stylist on drums, as well as a discoverer of musicians for over more than three decades.
Uncle of aka DJ Dozia.

Source: Discogs

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