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Art Blakey discography

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{{Infobox artist discography

| Artist = Art Blakey

| Image = Art_Blakey_1973.jpg

| Caption = Blakey touring in 1973 as part of The Giants of Jazz bill in the Musikhalle Hamburg

| Alt = A man sit down behind a golden-colored drum kit. The man holds a pair of drumsticks and he looks concentrated while beating the cymbal at his right and the snare at the center.

| Studio = 10

| Live = 3

| Compilation = 4

| Option name = Jazz Messengers

| Option = 76

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Art Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. "Art Blakey" and "Jazz Messengers" became synonymous over the years, though Blakey led many non-Messenger recording sessions.

In addition to the 76 albums which he recorded as a leader or co-leader of the Jazz Messengers, Blakey also led 10 studio albums, 3 live albums and 4 compilation sessions. A relentless performer, he continued to record as a sideman on dozens of albums, throughout his career—frequently for Messengers alumni. He also led several percussion-centric albums with many of his peers.

Studio albums

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Blakey

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  • Released: 1954
  • Recorded: May 20, 1954
  • Label: Emarcy (MG 26030)
  • Format: 10" LP
Orgy in Rhythm, Vols. 1 & 2

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  • Released: 1957
  • Recorded: March 7, 1957
  • Label: Blue Note (BLP 1554 [Mono], BST 1554 [Stereo]; BLP 1555)
  • Format: LP
Art Blakey Big Band

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  • Released: 1958
  • Recorded: December, 1957
  • Label: Bethlehem (BCP 6027)
  • Format: LP
Holiday for Skins, Vols. 1 & 2

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  • Released: 1959
  • Recorded: November 8, 1958
  • Label: Blue Note (BLP 4004, BLP 4005)
  • Format: LP
The African Beat

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  • Released: November 1962
  • Recorded: January 24, 1962
  • Label: Blue Note (BLP 4097 [Mono], BST 84097 [Stereo])
  • Format: LP
A Jazz Message

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  • Released: October 1963
  • Recorded: July 16, 1963
  • Label: Impulse! (A 45)
  • Format: LP
Hold On, I'm Coming

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  • Released: 1966
  • Recorded: May 12 and May 27, 1966
  • Label: Limelight (LM 82038)
  • Format: LP
Killer Joe

| with George Kawaguchi

  • Released: 1982
  • Recorded: December 4, 1981
  • Label: Union Jazz (ULP 5001)
  • Format: LP
Feel the Wind

|with Freddie Hubbard

  • Released: 1989
  • Recorded: October 31 & November 1, 1988
  • Label: Timeless (SJP 307)
  • Format: LP/CD
Bluesiana Triangle

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Just Coolin'

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  • Released: July 17, 2020
  • Recorded: March 8, 1959
  • Label: Blue Note (64201)
  • Format: CD, Vinyl LP

Live albums

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A Night at Birdland, Vols. 1–3

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  • Released: June, October, November 1954
  • Recorded: February 21, 1954
  • Label: Blue Note (BLP 5037, BLP 5038, BLP 5039)
  • Format: 10" LP
A Night at Birdland, Vols. 1 & 2

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  • Released: 1956
  • Recorded: February 21, 1954
  • Label: Blue Note (BLP 1521, BLP 1522)
  • Format: LP
A Night at Birdland, Vol. 3

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  • Released: 1984
  • Recorded: February 21, 1954
  • Label: Toshiba
  • Format: LP

Compilation albums

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New Sounds

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  • Released: 1952
  • Recorded: December 22, 1947
  • Label: Blue Note (BLP 5010)
  • Format: 10" LP

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Horace Silver Trio, Vol. 2/Art Blakey-Sabu – Spotlight On Drums

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  • Released: 1954
  • Recorded: November 23, 1953
  • Label: Blue Note (BLP 5034)
  • Format: 10" LP

| Blakey and Sabu collaborated on two songs on this LP, which is filled out with the Horace Silver Trio, also including Blakey. Reissued on 12" LP BLP 1520.

Live Messengers

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  • Released: 1978
  • Recorded: February 21, 1954
  • Label: Blue Note (BN-LA472-J2)
  • Format: LP

| This 2 record set contains unreleased tracks from the Night at Birdland session along with other, later, live Jazz Messengers live tracks.

Drum Suite

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  • Released: 1957
  • Recorded: February 22, 1957
  • Label: Columbia (CL 1002)
  • Format: LP

| Side one is the Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble, side two is the Jazz Messengers.

Drums Around the Corner

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  • Released: October 19, 1999
  • Recorded: November 2, 1958, and March 29, 1959
  • Label: Blue Note (21455)
  • Format: CD

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The Jazz Messengers albums

{{Main|The Jazz Messengers discography}}

Albums recorded as a side musician

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! style="width:15em" | Leader

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1950

| style="text-align:left" | Dexter Gordon and His Boys

| Dexter Gordon

| Savoy (MG 9003)

1950

| style="text-align:left" | New Sound in Modern Music, Vol. 3

| Dexter Gordon

| Savoy (MG 9015)

1950

| style="text-align:left" | New Sound in Modern Music, Vol. 6

| Fats Navarro

| Savoy (MG 9019)

1950

| style="text-align:left" | Battle of the Saxes

| Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt

| Prestige (PRLP 107)

1950

| style="text-align:left" | Tenor Sax, Vol. 1

| Gene Ammons

| Prestige (PRLP 112)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Genius of Modern Music

| Thelonious Monk

| Blue Note (BLP 5002)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Mr. Saxophone

| Sonny Stitt

| Prestige (PRLP 111)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Sonny Stitt Favorites, Vol. 2

| Sonny Stitt

| Prestige (PRLP 126)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Gene Ammons Favorites, Vol. 2

| Gene Ammons

| Prestige (PRLP 127)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Dizzy Gillespie, Vol. 1

| Dizzy Gillespie

| Dee Gee (MG 1000)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Collates

| Illinois Jacquet

| Clef (MGC 112)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Collates #2

| Illinois Jacquet

| Clef (MGC 129)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Wizard of the Vibes

| Milt Jackson

| Blue Note (BLP 5011)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Swingin' with Zoot Sims

| Zoot Sims

| Prestige (PRLP 117)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Tenor Sax Favorites

| Zoot Sims

| Prestige (PRLP 118)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Modern Jazz Trombones, Vol. 2

| Bennie Green, J. J. Johnson

| Prestige (PRLP 123)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | The New Sounds

| Miles Davis

| Prestige (PRLP 124)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Mambo Jazz

| Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Joe Holiday, Kenny Graham

| Prestige (PRLP 135)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Sonny Rollins Quartet

| Sonny Rollins

| Prestige (PRLP 137)

1951

| style="text-align:left" | Blue Period

| Miles Davis

| Prestige (PRLP 140)

1952

| style="text-align:left" | James Moody and his Modernists with Chano Pozo

| James Moody

| Blue Note (BLP 5006)

1952

| style="text-align:left" | Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2

| Thelonious Monk

| Blue Note (BLP 5009)

1952

| style="text-align:left" | King of the Clarinet

| Buddy DeFranco

| MGM (E 177)

1952

| style="text-align:left" | Zoot Sims All Stars with Kai Winding and Al Cohn

| Zoot Sims

| Prestige (PRLP 138)

1952

| style="text-align:left" | King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings

| Annie Ross

| Prestige (PRLP 7128)

1952

| style="text-align:left" | Introducing the Horace Silver Trio

| Horace Silver

| Blue Note (BLP 5018)

1952

| style="text-align:left" | Thelonious Monk Trio

| Thelonious Monk

| Prestige (PRLP 142)

1952

| style="text-align:left" | New Faces-New Sounds

| Lou Donaldson

| Blue Note (BLP 5021)

1952

| style="text-align:left" | Disorder at the Border

| Coleman Hawkins

| Spotlite (SPJ 121) [1973]

1953

| style="text-align:left" | Buddy DeFranco with Strings

| Buddy DeFranco

| MGM (E 253)

1953

| style="text-align:left" | Introducing the Kenny Drew Trio

| Kenny Drew

| Blue Note (BLP 5023)

1953

| style="text-align:left" | Buddy DeFranco Quartet

| Buddy DeFranco

| Clef (MGC 149)

1953

| style="text-align:left" | Miles Davis Volume 2

| Miles Davis

| Blue Note (BLP 5022)

1953

| style="text-align:left" | Buddy DeFranco Takes You to the Stars

| Buddy DeFranco

| Gene Norman Presents (Vol. 2)

1953

| style="text-align:left" | New Star on the Horizon

| Clifford Brown

| Blue Note (BLP 5032)

1953

| style="text-align:left" | Introducing Paul Bley

| Paul Bley

| Debut (DLP 7)

1954

| style="text-align:left" | Miles Davis Volume 3

| Miles Davis

| Blue Note (BLP 5040)

1954

| style="text-align:left" | Miles Davis Quartet

| Miles Davis

| Prestige (PRLP 161)

1954

| style="text-align:left" | Elmo Hope Quintet

| Elmo Hope

| Blue Note (BLP 5044)

1954

| style="text-align:left" | Thelonious Monk Quintet

| Thelonious Monk

| Prestige (PRLP 180)

1954

| style="text-align:left" | Sonny Rollins Quintet

| Sonny Rollins

| Prestige (PRLP 186)

1954

| style="text-align:left" | Lou Donaldson Sextet, Vol. 2

| Lou Donaldson

| Blue Note (BLP 5055)

1954

| style="text-align:left" | Introducing Joe Gordon

| Joe Gordon

| EmArcy (MG 26046)

1954

| style="text-align:left" | Thelonious Monk Trio

| Thelonious Monk

| Prestige (PRLP 189)

1955

| style="text-align:left" | Clark Terry

| Clark Terry

| EmArcy (MG 36007)

1955

| style="text-align:left" | Jazz Original

| Bud Powell

| Norgran (MGN 1017)

1955

| style="text-align:left" | The Randy Weston Trio

| Randy Weston

| Riverside (RLP 2515)

1955

| style="text-align:left" | Afro-Cuban

| Kenny Dorham

| Blue Note (BLP5065, BLP 1535)

1955

| style="text-align:left" |Julius Watkins Sextet, Vol. 2

| Julius Watkins

| Blue Note (BLP 5064)

1955

| style="text-align:left" | Hank Mobley Quartet

| Hank Mobley

| Blue Note (BLP 5066)

1955

| style="text-align:left" | The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 2

| Herbie Nichols

| Blue Note (BLP 5069)

1955

| style="text-align:left" | Duke Jordan Trio and Quintet

| Duke Jordan

| Signal (S 1202)

1955

| style="text-align:left" | Gigi Gryce and Orchestra

| Gigi Gryce

| Signal (S 1201)

1955

| style="text-align:left" | Byrd's Eye View

| Donald Byrd

| Transition (TRLP J-4)

1956

| style="text-align:left" | The Unique Thelonious Monk

| Thelonious Monk

| Riverside (RLP 12-209)

1956

| style="text-align:left" | Metronome All-Stars 1956

| Metronome All-Stars

| Clef (MGC 743)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | Plenty, Plenty Soul

| Milt Jackson

| Atlantic (LP 1269)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | Hank Mobley and His All Stars

| Hank Mobley

| Blue Note (BLP 1544)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One

| Jimmy Smith

| Blue Note (BLP 1547)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two

| Jimmy Smith

| Blue Note (BLP 1548)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | Blowing in from Chicago

| Clifford Jordan, John Gilmore

| Blue Note (BLP 1549)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | Hank Mobley Quintet

| Hank Mobley

| Blue Note (BLP 1550)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Vol. 1

| Jimmy Smith

| Blue Note (BLP 1551)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Vol. 2

| Jimmy Smith

| Blue Note (BLP 1552)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | The Sounds of Jimmy Smith

| Jimmy Smith

| Blue Note (BLP 1556)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2

| Sonny Rollins

| Blue Note (BLP 1558)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | A Blowing Session

| Johnny Griffin

| Blue Note (BLP 1559)

1957

| style="text-align:left" | Monk's Music

| Thelonious Monk

| Riverside (RLP 12-242)

1958

| style="text-align:left" | House Party

| Jimmy Smith

| Blue Note (BLP 4002)

1958

| style="text-align:left" | Somethin' Else

| Cannonball Adderley

| Blue Note (BLP 1595)

1958

| style="text-align:left" | Minor Move

| Tina Brooks

| King (Japan) (GXF-3072)

1958

| style="text-align:left" | New Bottle Old Wine

| Gil Evans

| World Pacific (WP-1246)

1958

| style="text-align:left" | Blue Lights Volume 1

| Kenny Burrell

| Blue Note (BLP 1596)

1958

| style="text-align:left" | Blue Lights Volume 2

| Kenny Burrell

| Blue Note (BLP 1597)

1958

| style="text-align:left" | Things Are Getting Better

| Cannonball Adderley, Milt Jackson

| Riverside (RLP 12-286)

1959

| style="text-align:left" | Out of the Blue

| Blue Mitchell

| Riverside (RLP 12-293)

1959

| style="text-align:left" | My Conception

| Sonny Clark

| King (Japan) (GXF-3056)

1959

| style="text-align:left" | Swingin'

| Kenny Burrell

| King (Japan) (GXF-3070)

1959

| style="text-align:left" | On View at the Five Spot Cafe

| Kenny Burrell

| Blue Note (BLP 4021)

1959

| style="text-align:left" | Groovin' with Golson

| Benny Golson

| New Jazz (NJLP 8220)

1960

| style="text-align:left" | Here's Lee Morgan

| Lee Morgan

| Vee-Jay (NVJ2-910)

1960

| style="text-align:left" | Soul Station

| Hank Mobley

| Blue Note (BLP 4031)

1960

| style="text-align:left" | Comin' On!

| Dizzy Reece

| Blue Note (7243 5 22019 2)

1960

| style="text-align:left" | Lee-Way

| Lee Morgan

| Blue Note (BLP 4034)

1960

| style="text-align:left" | Soul Time

| Bobby Timmons

| Riverside (RLP 334)

1960

| style="text-align:left" | Second Genesis

| Wayne Shorter

| Vee-Jay (VJS 3057)

1960

| style="text-align:left" | Expoobident

| Lee Morgan

| Vee-Jay (VJLP 3015)

1960

| style="text-align:left" | Roll Call

| Hank Mobley

| Blue Note (BLP 4058)

1962

| style="text-align:left" | Nigeria

| Grant Green

| Blue Note (LT-1032)

1962

| style="text-align:left" | Congo Lament

| Ike Quebec

| Blue Note (LT-1089)

1964

| style="text-align:left" | Tom Cat

| Lee Morgan

| Blue Note (LT-1058)

1964

| style="text-align:left" | Blues Bag

| Buddy DeFranco

| Vee-Jay (VJLP 2506)

1964

| style="text-align:left" | I/We Had a Ball

| Quincy Jones

| Limelight (LM 82002)

1971

| style="text-align:left" | Giants of Jazz

| Various Artists

| Concord Jazz (GW 3004)

1971

| style="text-align:left" | The Giants of Jazz

| Various Artists

| Atlantic (SD 2-905)

1971

| style="text-align:left" | Something in Blue

| Thelonious Monk

| Black Lion (BL 152)

1971

| style="text-align:left" | The Man I Love

| Thelonious Monk

| Black Lion (BL 197)

1977

| style="text-align:left" | Illumination

| Walter Davis, Jr.

| Denon (DC-8553)

1980

| style="text-align:left" | Gotham City

| Dexter Gordon

| Columbia (JC 36853)

1987

| style="text-align:left" | Magical Trio 1

| James Williams

| EmArcy (832 859 2)

Filmography

  • 1965 Live in '65 (DVD)
  • 1983 Jazz at the Smithsonian
  • 1986 At Ronnie Scott's London (Video)
  • 1995 The Jazz Messenger (Video/DVD)
  • 1998 Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
  • 2001 Jazz Life, Vol. 2
  • 2003 Modern Jazz at the Village Vanguard
  • 2003 Live from Ronnie Scott's (DVD)
  • 2003 Live at the Smithsonian
  • 2004 Live at Village Vanguard

Notes

{{reflist|refs=

{{cite book|last1=Feather|first1=Leonard|last2=Gitler|first2=Ira|title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz|date=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=9780199729074|page=65}}

{{cite web|title=Art Blakey|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/68828/Art-Blakey|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=16 September 2014}}

{{cite web|title=Blakey, Arthur (Art; Buhaina, Abdullay Ibn; Bu)|url=http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Blakey__Art.html|website=pabook.libraries.psu.edu|access-date=16 September 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910215713/http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Blakey__Art.html|archivedate=10 September 2013}}

{{cite web|title=Art Blakey Biography|url=http://www.biography.com/people/art-blakey-9214586|website=Bio.|access-date=16 September 2014}}

{{cite web|last1=Kelsey|first1=Chris|title=Art Blakey|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/art-blakey-mn0000928942/biography|website=All Music|access-date=16 September 2014}}

{{cite web|title=Art Blakey|url=https://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_blakey_art.htm|website=PBS|access-date=16 September 2014}}

}}

References

  • {{cite web|title=Art Blakey Discography|url=http://www.jazzdisco.org/art-blakey/discography/|website=JazzDisco.org|access-date=17 September 2014}}
  • {{cite web|last1=Schwartz|first1=Steve|last2=Fitzgerald|first2=Michael|title=Chronology of Art Blakey (and the Jazz Messengers)|url=http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Blakey/chron.htm|website=JazzDiscography.com|access-date=16 September 2014}}

External links

  • [http://www.jazzdisco.org/blakey/ Art Blakey discography] at the Jazz Discography Project, GFDL

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