Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers – A La Mode

Art Blakey was one of the best Jazz drummers and band leaders of all time. He is known as one of the inventors of modern Bebop style drumming. Blakey started off playing piano and was playing professionally by his teens. Shortly after he dedicated himself to drums and was playing with Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Fats Navarro, and other greats by the mid 1940’s.

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