Art Blakey discography
Art Blakey discography |
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Studio albums |
10 |
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Live albums |
3 |
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Compilation albums |
4 |
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Jazz Messengers |
76 |
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Art Blakey was an American Grammy Award-winning[1][2] jazz drummer and bandleader.[3][4][5] "Art Blakey" and "Jazz Messengers" became synonymous over the years, though Blakey led many non-Messenger recording sessions.[6][7][8]
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.[8] He also led several percussion-centric albums with many of his peers.[3][8]
Studio albums
Album |
Album details |
Blakey |
- Released: 1954
- Recorded: May 20, 1954
- Label: Emarcy (MG 26030)
- Format: 10" LP
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Orgy in Rhythm, Vol. 1 and 2 |
- Released: 1957
- Recorded: March 7, 1957
- Label: Blue Note (BLP 1554 [Mono], BST 1554 [Stereo]; BLP 1555)
- Format: LP
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Art Blakey Big Band |
- Released: 1958
- Recorded: December, 1957
- Label: Bethlehem (BCP 6027)
- Format: LP
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Drums Around the Corner |
- Released: October 19, 1999
- Recorded: November 2, 1958 and March 29, 1959
- Label: Blue Note (21455)
- Format: CD
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Holiday for Skins, Vol. 1 and 2 |
- Released: 1959
- Recorded: November 8, 1958
- Label: Blue Note (BLP 4004, BLP 4005)
- Format: LP
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The Freedom Rider |
- Released: 1961
- Recorded: 1961
- Label: Blue Note (BLP 4156 [Mono], BST 84156 [Stereo])
- Format: LP
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The African Beat |
- Released: November 1962
- Recorded: January 24, 1962
- Label: Blue Note (BLP 4097 [Mono], BST 84097 [Stereo])
- Format: LP
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A Jazz Message |
- Released: February 1964
- Recorded: July 16, 1963
- Label: Impulse! (A 45)
- Format: LP
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Hold On, I'm Coming |
- Released: 1966
- Recorded: May 12 and May 27, 1966
- Label: Limelight (LM 82038)
- Format: LP
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Killer Joe |
- Released: 1982
- Recorded: December 4, 1981
- Label: Union Jazz (ULP 5001)
- Format: LP
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Bluesiana Triangle |
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Live albums
Compilation albums
Album |
Album details |
Notes |
New Sounds |
- 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 |
- Released: 1954
- Recorded: November 23, 1953
- Label: Blue Note (BLP 5034)
- Format: 10" LP
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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 |
- Released: 1978
- Recorded: February 21, 1954
- Label: Blue Note (BN-LA472-J2)
- Format: LP
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This 2 record set contains unreleased tracks from the Night at Birdland session along with other, later, live Jazz Messengers live tracks. |
Drum Suite |
- Released: 1957
- Recorded: February 22, 1957
- Label: Columbia (CL 1002)
- Format: LP
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Side one is the Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble, side two is the Jazz Messengers. |
Jazz Messengers albums
Albums recorded as a sideman
Year |
Title |
Leader |
Label |
1950 |
Dexter Gordon and His Boys |
Dexter Gordon |
Savoy (MG 9003) |
1950 |
New Sound in Modern Music, Vol. 3 |
Dexter Gordon |
Savoy (MG 9015) |
1950 |
New Sound in Modern Music, Vol. 6 |
Fats Navarro |
Savoy (MG 9019) |
1950 |
Battle of the Saxes |
Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt |
Prestige (PRLP 107) |
1950 |
Tenor Sax, Vol. 1 |
Gene Ammons |
Prestige (PRLP 112) |
1951 |
Genius of Modern Music |
Thelonious Monk |
Blue Note (BLP 5002) |
1951 |
Mr. Saxophone |
Sonny Stitt |
Prestige (PRLP 111) |
1951 |
Sonny Stitt Favorites, Vol. 2 |
Sonny Stitt |
Prestige (PRLP 126) |
1951 |
Gene Ammons Favorites, Vol. 2 |
Gene Ammons |
Prestige (PRLP 127) |
1951 |
Dizzy Gillespie, Vol. 1 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
Dee Gee (MG 1000) |
1951 |
Collates |
Illinois Jacquet |
Clef (MGC 112) |
1951 |
Collates #2 |
Illinois Jacquet |
Clef (MGC 129) |
1951 |
Wizard of the Vibes |
Milt Jackson |
Blue Note (BLP 5011) |
1951 |
Swingin' with Zoot Sims |
Zoot Sims |
Prestige (PRLP 117) |
1951 |
Tenor Sax Favorites |
Zoot Sims |
Prestige (PRLP 118) |
1951 |
Modern Jazz Trombones, Vol. 2 |
Bennie Green, J. J. Johnson |
Prestige (PRLP 123) |
1951 |
The New Sounds |
Miles Davis |
Prestige (PRLP 124) |
1951 |
Mambo Jazz |
Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Joe Holiday, Kenny Graham |
Prestige (PRLP 135) |
1951 |
Sonny Rollins Quartet |
Sonny Rollins |
Prestige (PRLP 137) |
1951 |
Blue Period |
Miles Davis |
Prestige (PRLP 140) |
1952 |
James Moody and his Modernists with Chano Pozo |
James Moody |
Blue Note (BLP 5006) |
1952 |
Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 |
Thelonious Monk |
Blue Note (BLP 5009) |
1952 |
King of the Clarinet |
Buddy DeFranco |
MGM (E 177) |
1952 |
Zoot Sims All Stars with Kai Winding and Al Cohn |
Zoot Sims |
Prestige (PRLP 138) |
1952 |
King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings |
Annie Ross |
Prestige (PRLP 7128) |
1952 |
Introducing the Horace Silver Trio |
Horace Silver |
Blue Note (BLP 5018) |
1952 |
Thelonious Monk Trio |
Thelonious Monk |
Prestige (PRLP 142) |
1952 |
New Faces-New Sounds |
Lou Donaldson |
Blue Note (BLP 5021) |
1953 |
Buddy DeFranco with Strings |
Buddy DeFranco |
MGM (E 253) |
1953 |
Introducing the Kenny Drew Trio |
Kenny Drew |
Blue Note (BLP 5023) |
1953 |
Buddy DeFranco Quartet |
Buddy DeFranco |
Clef (MGC 149) |
1953 |
Miles Davis Volume 2 |
Miles Davis |
Blue Note (BLP 5022) |
1953 |
Buddy DeFranco Takes You to the Stars |
Buddy DeFranco |
Gene Norman Presents (Vol. 2) |
1953 |
New Star on the Horizon |
Clifford Brown |
Blue Note (BLP 5032) |
1953 |
Introducing Paul Bley |
Paul Bley |
Debut (DLP 7) |
1954 |
Miles Davis Volume 3 |
Miles Davis |
Blue Note (BLP 5040) |
1954 |
Miles Davis Quartet |
Miles Davis |
Prestige (PRLP 161) |
1954 |
Elmo Hope Quintet |
Elmo Hope |
Blue Note (BLP 5044) |
1954 |
Thelonious Monk Quintet |
Thelonious Monk |
Prestige (PRLP 180) |
1954 |
Sonny Rollins Quintet |
Sonny Rollins |
Prestige (PRLP 186) |
1954 |
Lou Donaldson Sextet, Vol. 2 |
Lou Donaldson |
Blue Note (BLP 5055) |
1954 |
Introducing Joe Gordon |
Joe Gordon |
EmArcy (MG 26046) |
1954 |
Thelonious Monk Trio |
Thelonious Monk |
Prestige (PRLP 189) |
1955 |
Clark Terry |
Clark Terry |
EmArcy (MG 36007) |
1955 |
Jazz Original |
Bud Powell |
Norgran (MGN 1017) |
1955 |
The Randy Weston Trio |
Randy Weston |
Riverside (RLP 2515) |
1955 |
Afro-Cuban |
Kenny Dorham |
Blue Note (BLP5065, BLP 1535) |
1955 |
Julius Watkins Sextet, Vol. 2 |
Julius Watkins |
Blue Note (BLP 5064) |
1955 |
Hank Mobley Quartet |
Hank Mobley |
Blue Note (BLP 5066) |
1955 |
The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol. 2 |
Herbie Nichols |
Blue Note (BLP 5069) |
1955 |
Duke Jordan Trio and Quintet |
Duke Jordan |
Signal (S 1202) |
1955 |
Gigi Gryce and Orchestra |
Gigi Gryce |
Signal (S 1201) |
1955 |
Byrd's Eye View |
Donald Byrd |
Transition (TRLP J-4) |
1956 |
The Unique Thelonious Monk |
Thelonious Monk |
Riverside (RLP 12-209) |
1956 |
Metronome All-Stars 1956 |
Metronome All-Stars |
Clef (MGC 743) |
1957 |
Plenty, Plenty Soul |
Milt Jackson |
Atlantic (LP 1269) |
1957 |
Hank Mobley and His All Stars |
Hank Mobley |
Blue Note (BLP 1544) |
1957 |
A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume One |
Jimmy Smith |
Blue Note (BLP 1547) |
1957 |
A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume Two |
Jimmy Smith |
Blue Note (BLP 1548) |
1957 |
Blowing in from Chicago |
Clifford Jordan, John Gilmore |
Blue Note (BLP 1549) |
1957 |
Hank Mobley Quintet |
Hank Mobley |
Blue Note (BLP 1550) |
1957 |
Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Vol. 1 |
Jimmy Smith |
Blue Note (BLP 1551) |
1957 |
Jimmy Smith at the Organ, Vol. 2 |
Jimmy Smith |
Blue Note (BLP 1552) |
1957 |
The Sounds of Jimmy Smith |
Jimmy Smith |
Blue Note (BLP 1556) |
1957 |
Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 |
Sonny Rollins |
Blue Note (BLP 1558) |
1957 |
A Blowing Session |
Johnny Griffin |
Blue Note (BLP 1559) |
1957 |
Monk's Music |
Thelonious Monk |
Riverside (RLP 12-242) |
1958 |
House Party |
Jimmy Smith |
Blue Note (BLP 4002) |
1958 |
Somethin' Else |
Cannonball Adderley |
Blue Note (BLP 1595) |
1958 |
Minor Move |
Tina Brooks |
King (Japan) (GXF-3072) |
1958 |
New Bottle Old Wine |
Gil Evans |
World Pacific (WP-1246) |
1958 |
Blue Lights Volume 1 |
Kenny Burrell |
Blue Note (BLP 1596) |
1958 |
Blue Lights Volume 2 |
Kenny Burrell |
Blue Note (BLP 1597) |
1958 |
Things Are Getting Better |
Cannonball Adderley, Milt Jackson |
Riverside (RLP 12-286) |
1959 |
Out of the Blue |
Blue Mitchell |
Riverside (RLP 12-293) |
1959 |
My Conception |
Sonny Clark |
King (Japan) (GXF-3056) |
1959 |
Swingin' |
Kenny Burrell |
King (Japan) (GXF-3070) |
1959 |
On View at the Five Spot Cafe |
Kenny Burrell |
Blue Note (BLP 4021) |
1959 |
Groovin' with Golson |
Benny Golson |
New Jazz (NJLP 8220) |
1960 |
Here's Lee Morgan |
Lee Morgan |
Vee-Jay (NVJ2-910) |
1960 |
Soul Station |
Hank Mobley |
Blue Note (BLP 4031) |
1960 |
Comin' On! |
Dizzy Reece |
Blue Note (7243 5 22019 2) |
1960 |
Lee-Way |
Lee Morgan |
Blue Note (BLP 4034) |
1960 |
Soul Time |
Bobby Timmons |
Riverside (RLP 334) |
1960 |
Second Genesis |
Wayne Shorter |
Vee-Jay (VJS 3057) |
1960 |
Expoobident |
Lee Morgan |
Vee-Jay (VJLP 3015) |
1960 |
Roll Call |
Hank Mobley |
Blue Note (BLP 4058) |
1962 |
Nigeria |
Grant Green |
Blue Note (LT-1032) |
1962 |
Congo Lament |
Ike Quebec |
Blue Note (LT-1089) |
1964 |
Tom Cat |
Lee Morgan |
Blue Note (LT-1058) |
1964 |
Blues Bag |
Buddy DeFranco |
Vee-Jay (VJLP 2506) |
1964 |
I/We Had a Ball |
Various Artists |
Limelight (LM 82002) |
1971 |
Giants of Jazz |
Various Artists |
Concord Jazz (GW 3004) |
1971 |
The Giants of Jazz |
Various Artists |
Atlantic (SD 2-905) |
1971 |
Something in Blue |
Thelonious Monk |
Black Lion (BL 152) |
1971 |
The Man I Love |
Thelonious Monk |
Black Lion (BL 197) |
1977 |
Illumination |
Walter Davis, Jr. |
Denon (DC-8553) |
1980 |
Gotham City |
Dexter Gordon |
Columbia (JC 36853) |
1987 |
Magical Trio 1 |
James Williams |
EmArcy (832 859 2) |
Filmography
- 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
References
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