Art Blakey
's
Jazz Messengers
was a group that operated for four decades as a type of “school of hard knocks,
” developing the talents of dozens of young jazz players, from Horace Silver to
Wynton Marsalis
and many more, in recordings and onstage performances powered by the ferocious drumming of the bandleader, Art Blakey.
Blakey was born in Pittsburgh on . As a young teenager, with a few piano lessons under his belt, he was already leading...