Vinyl records

Art Blakey vinyl records

7 albums with 127 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Arthur Blakey (Abdullah Ibn Buhaina). American jazz drummer, composer and leader Born October 11, 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, died October 16, 1990 in New York City, New York, USA He was best known as leader of The Jazz Messengers. Blakey was the foster son in a Seventh Day Adventist Family, learning the piano as he learned the Bible, mastering both at an early age. In the early 1930's, while gigging at the Democratic Club in Pittsburgh, his piano career came to an abrupt end when he was ordered onto the drums to make way for pianist . This incident was apparently at the gunpoint of the nightclub's owner, as Blakey often recalled.