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Artist: Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
Album: The Witch Doctor (1969)
Release: 2021 Remastering, Tone Poet series, on 180g
Region: Worldwide
Label: Blue Note – ST-84258

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John Eckman @[email protected] · 2026-04-09 · 20:26 UTC

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Drum Suite, 1957 on Columbia

Art Blakey is joined here (at least on the A-side) by Cuban drummers Candido and Sabu, with Ray Bryant, Oscar Pettiford, and Charles Wright. On the B side, Jackie McLean, Spanky DeBrest, Sam Dockery, and Bill Hardman join as the Jazz Messengers.

My copy—via private sale—is a 1950s Columbia Hollywood plant pressing with the 6-eye label. The artist is credited as “The Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble” on both labels but the cover credits the B side to the Jazz Messengers.

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John Eckman @[email protected] · 2026-03-24 · 19:54 UTC

Thelonious Monk, The London Collection Volume 3, 1989 on Black Lion

Recorded at Chappell Studios in London Nov 15th, 1971 but not released until the late 80s on Black Lion, these recordings are from near the end of his recording and performing career. Monk’s joined by Al McKibbon on bass and Art Blakey on drums.

There are at least 3 volumes in the London Collection as well as a three CD Complete London Collection put out by Black Lion.

My copy—via a private sale—is the 2016 reissue by Org Music on Black Lion labels, pressed at Pallas.

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Pascal Savelon 🎷 @[email protected] · 2026-03-09 · 10:14 UTC

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers en concert le 18 juillet 1983 à la Grande Parade de Nice

Terence Blanchard (tp), Donald Harrison (as), Jean Toussaint (ts), Johnny O'Neal (p), Lonnie Plaxico (b), #ArtBlakey (dr)

#jazz #podcast #francemusique :
https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/les-legendes-du-jazz/art-blakey-and-the-jazz-messengers-en-concert-le-18-juillet-1983-a-la-grande-parade-de-nice-8308605

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Radio_Azureus @[email protected] · 2026-02-27 · 17:28 UTC

Background of Artist

Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) 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.[1]
Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He then 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 which he led for the next 35 years. The group was 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, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller, Chuck Mangione, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Cedar Walton, Woody Shaw, Terence Blanchard, and Wynton Marsalis. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers "the archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s."[2]

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Blakey

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