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The Jazz Messengers

  • 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 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 […]

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