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Birth Name:Arthur Blakey

Date of Birth:October 11th, 1919

Date of Death:October 16th, 1990

Website:http://www.artblakey.com · http://www.artblakey.com/

Blakey in 1985

Blakey in 1985

Backgrounds:Non Vocal Instrumentalist

Origin Place:Pennsylvania · Pittsburgh · United States

Occupations:Drummer

Instruments:Drum Set · Percussion

Years Active:1940s - 1990s

Categories:1919 Births · 1990 Deaths · African American Musicians · American Jazz Bandleaders · American Jazz Drummers · American Jazz Musicians · American Muslims · Artist · Bebop Drummers · Drummer · Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Winners · Hard-Bop Drummers · Jazz Bandleaders · Musicians From Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh Musicians

Labels:Blue Note Records

Genres:Bebop · Hard Bop

Aliases:Abdullah Ibn Buhaina

Art Blakey

Arthur (Art) Blakey, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, he was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

Along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming.

He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was (and remains) profoundly influential on mainstream jazz.

Over more than 30 years his band the Jazz Messengers included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz.

The band's legacy is thus not only the often exceptionally fine music it produced, but as a proving ground for several generations of jazz musicians; Blakey's group is equivalent only to those of Miles Davis in this regard.

He was a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

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