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  • Jazz at 100 Hour 90: Art Blakey and the Young Lions (1981 – 1991)

    Dec 13th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Blakey, Bobby Watson, Branford Marsalis, Donald Harrison Jr, Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis

    Wynton Marsalis As the 1970s came to a close, many musicians searching for alternatives to jazz-rock fusion or free jazz found a home in straight-ahead acoustic jazz. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, whose Blue Note contract was not renewed in 1964, had spent a decade in relative obscurity, when he came roaring back with […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 60: The Jazz Messengers Continued (1960 – 1964)

    May 11th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Blakey, Bobbie Timmons, Cedar Walton, Curtis Fuller, Freddie Hubbard, Jymie Merritt, Lee Morgan, The Jazz Messengers, Wayne Shorter

    Freddie Hubbard – Curtis Fuller As the 1960s began Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers were fueled by the compositions of Wayne Shorter with the front line of Shorter and Lee Morgan. In 1961, this transitioned to the last great Messengers lineup of the 1960s – and it was one of the best ever – Freddie Hubbard on […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 46: The Songbooks (1950 – 1959)

    Jan 19th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Anita O'Day, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Gil Evans, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Irving Berlin, Jazz Messengers, Lerner & Loewe, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, My Fair Lady, Porgy and Bess, Shelly Manne, Sonny Criss

    Ella Fitzgerald Songs from what came to be known as the Great American Songbook, have been part of jazz perhaps since The Original Dixieland Jazz Band began recording Irving Berlin compositions. In the 1940s, singer Lee Wiley recorded several collections of 78s, known as “albums” – a name that stuck into the LP era, focused […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 40: Sons of the Jazz Messengers (1956 – 1964)

    Dec 1st, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Albert "Tootie" Heath, Art Blakey, Barry Harris, Billy Higgins, Bobby Timmons, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Joe Henderson, Jymie Merrit, Kenny Dorham, Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter, The Jazz Messengers, Wayne Shorter, Wynton Kelly

    Wayne Shorter – Art Blakey – Lee Morgan In 1956, with Horace Silver’s departure, Art Blakey inherited the Jazz Messengers. Over the next five years, the Jazz Messengers took part in recording sessions that have resulted in almost 40 live and studio recordings. Also in this period, Blakey collaborated with players who became the stars […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 39: The Birth of Hard Bop (1950 – 1958)

    Nov 24th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Blakey, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, Clifford Brown, Hard Bop, Horace Silver, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, The Jazz Messengers

    Horace Silver While the “Cool School” was emerging on the West Coast from its roots in Bix and Pres as codified by Miles in “The Birth of the Cool” sessions of 1949 – 1950, what became known as Hard Bop, a gospel- and blues-influenced variant was growing from Bebop in the east. “If cool jazz […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 28: The Genius of Modern Music – Thelonious Monk on Blue Note (1947 – 1950)

    Sep 1st, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson, Thelonious Monk

    Thelonious Monk In 1940, Minton’s Playhouse on West 118th Street hired drummer Kenny Clarke as a bandleader. For the house band, Clarke hired trumpeter Joe Guy, bassist Nick Fenton, and an eccentric pianist named Thelonious Monk. Although Monk recorded with Coleman Hawkins in 1944, he didn’t record with his own group until 1947. Despite these […]

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