This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny ...

introducing bandmates to songs by Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Playing the piano at home, he would sometimes mimic the style of two different jazz greats at once, Haust said, performing the Duke ...

Sunny Murray usually gets the credit for establishing the drum style while playing with ... The drummers Max Roach and Art Blakey put out more than 20 albums each as leaders between 1955 and ...

His four-year tenure with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers saw the ... Fabian Almazan on piano and synthesizers, Oscar Seaton on drums and David “DJ” Ginyard on bass. What are the qualities ...

And so he was. Roy Haynes might not have had such a big, powerful sound as Art Blakey or Elvin Jones but ... Roy Haynes, whose power and sensitivity on the drums made him a first choice for leading ...

After a tentative period sitting in at the Village Vanguard and other New York jazz spots, Jarrett toured first with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers ... with Gary Peacock on double bass and Jack ...

A precociously-talented drum prodigy, Chicago-born Williams was ... rose to fame as a composer and tenor saxophonist for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers between 1959 and 1963 before joining Miles ...

Indeed, the band he co-founded with the vibrant young trumpeter Clifford Brown might have eclipsed Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers ... using a mixture of cowbell, drums, and cymbals to create ...

Paul Henry's Art Gallery in downtown Hammond will host Thomas Matecki and his Jazz Combo for a Jazz Jam Saturday from 2-5 p.m ...

In 1979, a musician put out a call in a magazine. Did anyone know where the German jazz pianist of the 1950s had gone?