Art Blakey
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 34 years ago |
Date of birth | October 11,1919 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Pittsburgh |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Date of died | October 16,1990 |
Died | Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center |
New York | |
United States | |
Instruments | Drums |
Percussion | |
Drums; Percussion | |
Children | Evelyn Blakey |
Takashi Buhaina | |
Art Blakey Jr. | |
Khadijah Buhaina | |
Movies/Shows | One Night with Blue Note |
The Road to Shame | |
I Called Him Morgan | |
Ballerina | |
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Paris 1959 | |
A Great Day in Harlem | |
Jazz Icons: Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Live in '58 | |
Jazz Icons: Art Blakey: Live in '65 | |
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Modern Jazz at the Village Vanguard | |
Awards | Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award |
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album | |
Grammy Hall of Fame | |
Listen artist | www.youtube.com |
Parents | Marie Roddicker |
Bertrand Blakey | |
Albums | Moanin' |
Groups | The Jazz Messengers |
The Giants of Jazz | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 412845 |
Art Blakey Life story
Arthur Blakey 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. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine.