Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Used, but not abused (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008

Again, useful information HERE on a performer I know very little about.

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten @ The Keswick Theatre on August 19, 2008

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday

SMV: THE THUNDER TOUR KESWICK THEATRE 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside, PA TUES., AUG. 19, 8 PM Tickets on sale NOW! Thunder happens when three premier bassists Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten team up for concert dates. The Thunder Tour comes to Glenside's Keswick Theatre on Tues., Aug. 19 @ 8 PM...

Geoffrey Keezer: Making, And Controlling, His New Music

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Pianist/composer Geoffrey Keezer has been playing piano since age three and has been on the road since 1989 when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers after a year at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Over the years, he's recorded steadily and played with numerous jazz luminaries including Ray Brown, Diana Krall, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Kenny Barron, Chick Corea, Benny Green, and Mulgrew...

ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM: Pianist Geoffrey Keezer Interviewed at AAJ

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008

Pianist/composer Geoffrey Keezer has been playing piano since age three and has been on the road since 1989 when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers after a year at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Over the years, he's recorded steadily and played with numerous jazz luminaries including Ray Brown, Diana Krall, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Kenny Barron, Chick Corea, Benny Green, and Mulgrew...

CD/DOWNLOAD RELEASE: Monterey Jazz Festival Records to Release Six Archival Recordings

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008

Monterey Jazz Festival Records, in collaboration with the Concord Music Group, will issue the second wave of six never-before-released, archival live recordings taped on the Arena stage of the world-famous Monterey Jazz Festival. The releases are slated for August 5, 2008, seven weeks prior to MJF's celebration of its 51st annual presentation of world-class jazz, September 19-21, 2008...

Second Collection of Archival Music from Monterey Jazz Festival

JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008

On August 5th, in its second full slate of archival releases, Monterey Jazz Festival Records (MJFR) will release a new series of never-before-heard concert performances by six jazz greats - Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Shirley Horn, Tito Puente and Cal Tjader - and classic blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon. The MJFR label was founded in 2007 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Monterey Jazz Festival....

• CD/DOWNLOAD RELEASE: Monterey Jazz Festival Records to Release Six New Titles - All About Jazz

Remembering Lee Morgan

normblog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008

A friend points out that Lee Morgan would have been 70 last week. Here he is with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, remembering Clifford. (Thanks: DB.)

OBITUARY: Pianist Ronnie Mathews Dead at 72

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008

Pianist Ronnie Matthews died June 28 of pancreatic cancer, in New York. He was 72. Matthews was a hard bop stylist who performed and recorded with Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Woody Shaw,, Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Max Roach, Johnny Griffin, T.S. Monk, and many others. A benefit and tri...

Cowardy custard...

Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008

Playlist Hank Mobley – Roll Call John Coltrane – Blue Train Freddie Hubbard – Blue Spirits Hank Mobley – Workout Freddie Hubbard – Breaking Point Tina Brooks – True Blue Kenny Dorham – Trompeta Toccata Andrew Hill – Grass Roots Art Blakey – Buhaina’s Delight Murray Perahia – Perahia Plays Schumann Joe Henderson – In ’n Out Freddie Hubbard – Here to Stay Donald Byrd – The Cat Walk Andrew Hill – Black...

Donald Byrd - Pentatonic

Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008

in post Francis 'Scrapper' Blackwell... Max Roach... Donald Byrd... Booker Ervin... Art Blakey... Derek Bailey... from wordsandmusic .

Max Roach - Maximum

Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008

in post Francis 'Scrapper' Blackwell... Max Roach... Donald Byrd... Booker Ervin... Art Blakey... Derek Bailey... from wordsandmusic .

Francis 'Scrapper' Blackwell... Max Roach... Donald Byrd... Booker Ervin... Art Blakey... Derek Bailey...

wordsandmusic (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008

I promised a commenter some more Francis 'Scrapper' Blackwell – so here's the man giving out 'Blue Day Blues.' He really is one of the missing links between twenties country blues and later urban styles – introducing more linearity via the single-string breaks, for example. No mean singer either... From his 1967 album 'Blackjack,' this is Donald Byrd heading up a septet on 'Pentatonic.' Sonny Red solos...

Art Blakey - Moanin'

Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008

in post Esperanza Spalding from Mainstream isn't so bad...is it? .

Remembering Clifford Brown

Pundit Review (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008

Clifford Brown Oct. 10, 1930-June 26, 1956 Unless you really follow the history of jazz, you’ve probably never heard of Clifford Brown. That’s your loss. Clifford Brown was a genius, one of the greatest trumpet players of all time. He burst on the jazz scene in the early 1950’s, at a time when the [...]

Bobby Watson

The Herald (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008

Glasgow International Jazz Festival: One of the stars of the first Glasgow International Jazz Festivals, alto saxophonist Bobby Watson has taken the veteran drummer's mentoring role as the model for his later career.