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Art Blakey discography Studio albums 10 Live albums 3 Compilation albums 4 Jazz Messengers 76
Art Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] "Art Blakey" and "Jazz Messengers" became synonymous over the years, though Blakey led many non-Messenger recording sessions.[ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
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.[ 6] He also led several percussion-centric albums with many of his peers.[ 1] [ 6]
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Blakey
Released: 1954
Recorded: May 20, 1954
Label: Emarcy (MG 26030)
Format: 10" LP
Orgy in Rhythm, Vols. 1 & 2
Released: 1957
Recorded: March 7, 1957
Label: Blue Note (BLP 1554 [Mono], BST 1554 [Stereo]; BLP 1555)
Format: LP
Art Blakey Big Band
Released: 1958
Recorded: December, 1957
Label: Bethlehem (BCP 6027)
Format: LP
Holiday for Skins, Vols. 1 & 2
Released: 1959
Recorded: November 8, 1958
Label: Blue Note (BLP 4004, BLP 4005)
Format: LP
The African Beat
Released: November 1962
Recorded: January 24, 1962
Label: Blue Note (BLP 4097 [Mono], BST 84097 [Stereo])
Format: LP
A Jazz Message
Released: February 1964
Recorded: July 16, 1963
Label: Impulse! (A 45)
Format: LP
Hold On, I'm Coming
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
Just Coolin'
Released: July 17, 2020
Recorded: March 8, 1959
Label: Blue Note (64201)
Format: CD, Vinyl LP
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A Night at Birdland, Vols. 1–3
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
Released: 1956
Recorded: February 21, 1954
Label: Blue Note (BLP 1521, BLP 1522)
Format: LP
A Night at Birdland, Vol. 3
Released: 1984
Recorded: February 21, 1954
Label: Toshiba
Format: LP
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Notes
New Sounds
Released: 1952
Recorded: December 22, 1947
Label: Blue Note (BLP 5010)
Format: 10" LP
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
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
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
Side one is the Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble, side two is the Jazz Messengers .
Drums Around the Corner
Released: October 19, 1999
Recorded: November 2, 1958, and March 29, 1959
Label: Blue Note (21455)
Format: CD
The Jazz Messengers albums [ edit ]
Albums recorded as a side musician [ edit ]
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)
1952
Disorder at the Border
Coleman Hawkins
Spotlite (SPJ 121) [1973]
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
Quincy Jones
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)
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