This lineup produced several notable recordings, including the second Messenger album, A Night in Tunisia. Mobley did not accompany the band to a Canadian jazz festival in 1959 Lee Morgan encountered Wayne Shorter at the festival, and he joined the band in Mobley's place. Golson left the band in 1959 after a European tour (which produced live albums and a film soundtrack on Fontana Records and French RCA) to be replaced, briefly, by Hank Mobley. : 47 It featured two more songs which would become Messengers classics, and jazz classics as well: " Blues March" and "Along Came Betty" by Benny Golson. They returned to Blue Note and the first record-entitled simply Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers-produced their biggest hit: " Moanin'". This marked the beginning of probably the most fruitful period of the Jazz Messengers. In 1958 Blakey formed a new lineup with four Philadelphia natives: Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, and Jymie Merritt.
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1959–64) Over this time the band's name evolved to include Blakey's name, starting with "The Jazz Messengers, featuring Art Blakey" on Ritual, then "Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers" on several records, and also "Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers" on Cu-Bop. They went on to record for several different labels including RCA subsidiary Vik Records, Pacific Jazz, Elektra, Cadet, Jubilee, Bethlehem and a date on Atlantic featuring Thelonious Monk. They recorded another record for Columbia: Hard Bop-still under the collective's moniker The Jazz Messengers. Bill Hardman, Sam Dockery and Jimmy "Spanky" DeBrest complete the group. He was only 25, but had already recorded with Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. The most notable name, at the time, was Jackie McLean. īlakey then formed a new lineup that would prove to be much more stable. The only recording of this version of the Messengers was two tracks backing up singer Rita Reys on The Cool Voice of Rita Reys on Columbia. It included Kenny Drew, Wilbur Ware, and Ira Sullivan playing tenor sax rather than his main instrument, trumpet. The "Second" Messengers (1956–58) įor a brief period in 1956 Donald Byrd stayed on as a new lineup was formed. Later in the year, the original group disbanded, but Blakey retained the Jazz Messengers name for his future groups. This group released The Jazz Messengers on Columbia Records. In 1956 Dorham left the band to go out on his own and was replaced by Donald Byrd. 2-were subsequently reissued as a 12" LP entitled Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers. A pair of earlier recordings from sessions in late 1954 and early 1955-released on Blue Note 10" LPs as the Horace Silver Quintet, vol. Their first recordings officially using the Jazz Messengers name were a pair of live dates, recorded at the Café Bohemia in 1955. The other members included Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley and Doug Watkins. Blakey credits Silver with reviving the Messengers name for the group. The Jazz Messengers formed as a collective, nominally led by Silver or Blakey on various dates. Most date the origin of the Jazz Messengers to 1954, or 1955, when the first recordings credited to the band appeared.
These records were quite successful, and some cite this date as the beginning of the Jazz Messengers. The quintet included Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson and Curly Russell. On February 21, 1954, a group billed as the "Art Blakey Quintet" produced the live set of records called A Night at Birdland. Some cite the group that included Blakey, Silver, Kenny Dorham, Lou Donaldson and Gene Ramey in 1953 as the original Jazz Messengers. : 20 The Messengers name then went dormant for several years.īlakey and Horace Silver began working together in the early 1950s. Īround the same time-in 1947 or 1949 : 20 -Blakey led a big band called "Seventeen Messengers." The band proved to be financially unstable and broke up soon after. This octet included Kenny Dorham, Howard Bowe, Sahib Shihab, Musa Kaleem, Ernest Thompson, Walter Bishop Jr., and LaVerne Barker. The records were released as 78s at the time and two of the songs were released on the New Sounds 10" LP compilation (BLP 5010).
On December 17, 1947, Blakey led a group known as "Art Blakey's Messengers" in his first recording session as a leader, for Blue Note Records. 1.4 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1959–64).When these get too old, I'm gonna get some younger ones.
"Yes sir, I'm gonna to stay with the youngsters. "Art Blakey" and "Jazz Messengers" became synonymous over the years, though Blakey did lead non-Messenger recording sessions and played as a sideman for other groups throughout his career. Blakey led or co-led the group from the outset. The Jazz Messengers were a jazz combo that existed for over thirty-five years beginning in the early 1950s as a collective, and ending when long-time leader and founding drummer Art Blakey died in 1990.
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