Art Blakey and Horace Silver formed the Jazz Messengers in 1955 and co-led … Read Full Bio ↴Art Blakey and Horace Silver formed the Jazz Messengers in 1955 and co-led it. When Silver dropped out in the group's first year the group name was changed to Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Wayne Shorter was a long-standing member of the group, joining after the departure of Benny Golson, while other young musicians like Curtis Fuller, Donald Byrd, James 'Blood' Ulmer,Jymie Merritt, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons and Wynton Marsalis would come and go. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers continued to perform until shortly before Blakey's death in 1990.

Art Blakey continues to be a legend among drummers, while the works of his Jazz Messengers are treasured among jazz musicians.

A Night In Tunisia
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@FrazrRL

13y↑29

This is one of the greatest jazz recordings ever!!

@chris1caliboi

12y↑62

We can all agree art Blakey has the best drum production in jazz music, right?...

@normanquednau

4y↑15

Well, him and Elvin Jones....

@liamwatson5125

3y↑4

He is the world’s greatest drummer!

@brucescott4261

3y↑8

@@normanquednau ...Not just Elvin Ray Jones, Norman. That was later on. Klook, Max, Stan, Shelly, Roy, A.T., "Philly" Joe...The first generation of modern jazz drummers.

@docsaxman

3y↑7

I get you. But music is not a sport. Pittsburgh’s Art Blakey is one of the many pioneers of Jazz.

@uprightdoublebass

3y↑1

Ginger Baker was no slouch. He held his own and battled many greats including Blakey.

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@WBizarre

11y↑23

I love Dizzy, but this has to be my favorite rendition of A Night in Tunisia!

@MysteryProductsLtd

2y↑11

For me, personally, one of the greatest recorded pieces ever. I am now 10 years into developing a dance piece for it.

@danielroach7591

1y↑2

wishing you the best with your dance peice!

@MysteryProductsLtd

1y↑2

Very kind of you to say. Unfortunately that did not work out at all. Still love the recording though.

@danjw100

11y↑9

love how the rhythm section riff with Shorter, are really at Morgan during his solo and then just lay out behind Merrit. The whole thing is utter genius.

@zitacarno4443

5y↑1

Jymie Merritt...I can never think of any other bass player doing that ostinato at the beginning. It actually adds a sinister note to that intro.

@Blackgodamen26

1y↑3

Art Blakley Legendary musician 🏆💯

@terrywilma

4y↑6

Do we realize in 1960 Lee Morgan was 20 years old when he blew like that! Amazing.

@Stephenhaake

13y↑6

This is an epic jazz masterpiece!

@zitacarno4443

5y↑7

Those were the days---when one could go anywhere in New York for a good meal and great jazz. I had the good fortune to meet ---and have some stimulating conversations---with Art Blakey, as well as get to watch and listen to him. A superb musician and one of the greats of all time on those drums.

@TheStewartferrell

Those were the days!

@AT-27182

1y↑1

Such genius and such skill. This recording has always left me in awe.

@reddyreyalls869

5y↑5

Art Blakey always means excitement to me! Those bands just get it done!

@excitableblackmale1

2y↑2

The absolute best version and Art Blakey was a genius

@stephendavidgross

8y↑67

Had the great fortune to see these guys at the Village Gate more than a dozen times from so close up they would bum old gold straights from me and drizzle sweat into my rum & coke. Saw Art at the Russian River Jazz Fest in the mid-80s too. OMG!!

@tubbsofficial

6y↑12

Lee’s solo at the end gives life meaning

@uprightdoublebass

I like how you can hear someone say "yeah man!" during it.... Dope.

@themangoesman5861

@@uprightdoublebass That’s Blakey saying “Get mad!”

@AllTimeTops

49w

As a Tunisian I'm so proud that a masterpiece like this is called A Night in Tunisa

@widerling

13y↑2

Am always amazed as to why certain people feel the need to click the "dislike" button. This track has nothing to do with whether you like it or not. It's a monumental and vital period in jazz music, period!

@notnowliberty

12y

Lovely musicianship and a perfect interpretation. Art Blakey holds it so tight... and that's why I love me some serious hard bop.

@ter521fad

13y↑2

Only somebody who doesn't like or understand jazz would hit the dislike button for this. Besides Blakey's greatness as a drummer, he was also an incredible bandleader. What some people forget is that a lot of the wonderful musicians in the Jazz Messengers were also great writers. (Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Cedar Walton, etc, etc.)

@jeshun7071

9y↑12

I could watch this legend on the drums all day, simply mesmeric, leaves you spellbound, i was fortunate enough to get to speak to him on a tv show, great man too, now this track from 1958 shows you all what Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers were all about, they peaked with this classic, featuring Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter etc

@zalanromero304

9y↑3

J Eshun Moanin' is still the best jazz album I've ever heard. Beats Kind of Blue by a mile.

@meezydarko

6y↑2

Zalan Romero facts

@123must

11y↑2

One of the best rendition ! A lot of thanks

@CreatingMusicandSound

3y↑2

Amazing performance!

@BobinSRQ1

13y↑2

This is superb!! Thanks for this service... When I was a teenager, I used to play this album so often that I wore it out... Feels great to be able to hear it again... Thanks Again!!

@BobinSRQ1

12 years later...still so powerful...and driving...Thanks!

@magaleecraveiro

14y

Furumingo, obrigada por compartilhar comigo!! Eu, amo esse álbum!!! Obrigada, Maga-Lee :-))

@koovacs1

Outstanding drum work!

@MalikEKC

7y↑52

An old jazz record where you can actually hear the bassist!!!!!

@zitacarno4443

5y↑9

That was Jymie Merritt---one of the most inventive bass players I have ever heard. His unusual repetitive triplet figure really set things up

@iamdamosuzuki_

4y↑5

Listen to any jazz record with Jimmy Garrison, Richard Davis, Charlie Haden, Charles Mingus, or Gary Peacock on it. Those guys made DAMN sure you could hear them!

@teukuaziz

4y↑2

@@iamdamosuzuki_ Naturally, as Mingus is the band leader.
Same as the drum will always be in the spotlight in The Jazz Messenger or Metallica records..

@SlikaBezOkvira

11y↑2

one of my favorite pieces of jazz music

@Dobie_Gillis

4y↑1

This is the best cover around. This was a great band.

@footbaht6401

2y↑1

i love this album

@freeatlast3027

8y↑19

This is definitely the best version

@afrocampinas

11y

Música dos deuses!!!

@brucescott4261

6y↑3

BU and his Messengers. This particular unit was one of the best, PERIOD!!!

@georgedoughly6344

5y↑1

I Love ❤️ this Album!!

@punkempire

14y↑6

In my view, this is the best Blue Note track of all time.

@javiikiller

12y↑7

This song is perfect.

@jimthykeson9617

11y↑11

Crusaders, Messengers, Rollins, Parker, Peterson, Adderly, the golden greats of Blue Note and nights at Birdland! The 50's had the best jazz ever.

@abrahampalmer1153

6y↑3

Jim Thykeson also the early 60s aswell too. hardbop free jazz wave.

@iamdamosuzuki_

The 60's is my favorite decade for Jazz personally. That was the decade of avant-garde jazz, free jazz, post-bop, and third stream.

@alankirkby465

5y↑4

Don't you just love it, I do. Saw these musicians play : Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK 1961. Thelonious Monk, other half of the Bill. CD still can be purchased. ( Jazz Messengers )
Any genuine Jazz lovers out there, Love you all !!

@BigB_ec

12y

Must be a reason I remembered how great this song is today.

@liamwatson5125

4y↑1

You cannot sit still to this! Be sure to get your percussion ready if you have any!

@FRCVIDS

why hasn't this, possibly the finest jazz record, been reissue?

@CesarEdeza

12y

i love it!

@Maggie769

12y↑1

Fantastic - just like a night in Tunisia would be.

@mariatobe2205

5y↑2

And another thing noone knows is before Art Blakey played drums, HE WAS APIANO PLAYER HE PLAYED PIANO PROFESSIONAL. but he stopped playing under pressure from his Homeboy. Erroll Gardner the great piano player from Pittsburgh Pa. Art was also born in Pittsburgh Pa. Both went to Westinghouse high School.so he went to Drums that made him famous. Thank you Maria is my name.

@barbaravire6439

10y↑6

Art Blakey man wow! awesome love it!

@essiefinch1356

9y↑1

Oh Lord help me I just loove it!!!

@princyjones

11y

Best version of that tune imo!!

@zitacarno4443

5y↑1

I will never forget that night when I was at the Jazz Gallery and my two favorite groups---Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (with Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Curtis Fuller, Jymie Merritt and Cedar Walton) and John Coltrane's quartet (with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison nd Elvin Jones) were appearing together. At one point---it may have been the third set---both groups joined forces for a couple of tunes, and this was one of them. I wish it had been recorded---absolutely incredible!---and when it came to drum-solo time Art and Elvin went into orbit and took me with them. Not to mention McCoy and Cedar having a blast with some unbelievable four-.hand piano jazz---the two saxophonists trying to outdo each other and having to settle for a draw...Hard bop at its ultimate.

@TheeTonyClayton

6y↑5

It's hard for me to pick an essential version of this. Sonny Rollins' "A Night At The Village Vanguard", afternoon set is tied with this version for me. That Elvin Jones drum solo is out of this world, but Blakey's playing on this is not human.

@BV-pv2sd

Tony have you checked out that drum battle with Elvin, Art and Max Roach ? It's on YouTube. Sound & visual not to bad. Just awesome. I have to say Art Blakey blew me away! BV 50

@nitinparree

11y↑2

At first Dexter Gorden's version was my favourite, but now..... dat Lee Morgan This so awesome!

@BDCTheSloth90

5y↑2

This is not Night in Tunisia
This is Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
It's a block party in Marseille filled with people playing percussions, trumpets and saxes
It's an improptu gig in NYC on a hot summer's day
It's the best party that ever was, is, and will be
And I wanna be right there

@mosspalas

11y↑29

Why would someone dislike this when they're high??!??!??!??!??!? I love this sober, but when I'm high, it's like angels on cocaine whispering love poems in my ears...

@frantiskan

13y

just superb!

@richardeverson1042

8y↑14

i was lucky enough to see the great man at Ronnie Scotts..he was getting older but still a honour to have been i the same room. He really was something else

@fatmadridibenaissa3513

Sublimes!

@jorggercarrero

12y↑5

Lee Morgan & Shorter.... WOOOOOOOWWWWW! Fantastic!!!!!

@decunamus2

14y

This is it. This is the version I was looking for. OMG.

@garry805

12y

Офигеть!Класс!

@christophershaw5057

11y↑10

art's performance was ok, but i think we can all agree that the clave player was the real standout player of the performance

@jenisereedus

10y↑7

Lawd, get on down den!!!!!!!!! So much energy, I LOVE IT!!!!! LEE, MY MAIN MAN!!!!!!! <3

@durango8882

Incredible

@teelock28

12y↑9

Blakey says to Morgan "play your instrument" classic

@sixtieskid062

3y↑2

"Get mad!" :)

@DeluxeHobo

13y↑3

8:27 to the end is all I ever need to hear to know what I want to do with my life

@marlonthemarvellous

8y↑17

I thought miles and birds version (Savoy) was awesome. then I came across this. Took me to next levels

@salvatoremessina2040

11y↑1

Un grande casino che amo!!! Grazie!

@hiropaul1

13y

awesome!!!

@jamesrawlins735

Landmark version of Diz's classic. Anyone know if it's Wayne Shorter or Johnny Griffin playing sax on this recording?

@danschifrin7747

9y↑2

Wayne Shorter

@brucescott4261

EDWARD LEE MORGAN had two mentors as a teenager...CLIFFORD BENJAMIN BROWN, SR. and JOHN BIRKS GILLESPIE...WAYNE SHORTER was heavily influenced by THEODORE WALTER ROLLINS and JOHN WILLIAM COLTRANE, SR. ROBERT HENRY TIMMONS was heavily influenced by EARL RUDOLPH POWELL. JAMES RALEIGH MERRITT was heavily influenced by JAMES BLANTON and OSCAR PETTIFORD. ARTHUR WILLIAM BLAKEY, SR. was heavily influenced by WILLIAM HENRY WEBB, EUGENE BERTRAM KRUPA, WILLIAM RANDOLPH COLE, JONATHAN DAVID SAMUEL JONES, SIDNEY CATLETT and KENNETH SPEARMAN CLARKE. Bu was from the first generation of modern jazz drummers along with Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, Shelly Manne, Stan Levey, Denzil Best, Don Lamond, Roy Porter, Shadow Wilson, Chico Hamilton and Roy Haynes.

@RJDeachman

11y↑1

Art showed us the way.

@scottierobinson7280

Give it a listen with the set speed at o.75 👍🏼

@nobeh168

13y

spettacolare

@vincevarga3774

12y↑7

This is techno.

@kumit

12y

so nice!

@user-wm1qv2if3k

我が家にあったバージョンと全く同じです
鳥肌が立ちました

@Jaylasplenty

13y

I was reading someone's blog and I ended up here. John, if my not being able to sleep at night could be translated into music...this is what it sounds like. It also sounds like trying to stay awake during the day. *Jazz Mess*

@addy_hits

11y↑2

THAT TRUMPET PLAYER THO 8:15

@MrSpecialk77088

12y↑1

SO DOPE

@JazzobellDeux777

13y

BRAVOOOOOOO

@624-3

This is some Caravan style drumming.

@HeroSpiderman

13y

@ter521fad I guess you could say it's a good thing only two people clicked the dislike button! Love this track!

@typecastaaron

14y

wow best russian music ever

@funnychoob

12y↑1

YESSSSS AHHHHHHHHHHH WOOOOOO What a rollercoaster ride! Can I go on again?

@uprightdoublebass

3y↑1

I would love to hear this recording with no reverb

@wraitheful

there’s some interesting live versions in b & w, I believe.

@paultjader8699

Quality had the luck to share a glass of ref wine with him at Ronnie's on 80s

@MrSpecialk77088

12y

AWESOME

@TheDKW3

13y

complete eargasm

@barbaravire6439

10y↑5

This is real Jazz the best ever!!!!@

@mosspalas

11y

Not sure if I should call you out for a duel at sunset for dirtying the name of the lord of hard-bop, or if I should vehemently agree with you...

@donkeevney

12y↑1

Lol, great album.

@BGriffJames

8y↑4

This is the definitive version

@EinavGrynszpan

12y

The Jazz Mess ;P love it.

@MrJavon712

9y↑6

Class Is In Session!!!!

@unclejunglebass

14y↑2

lee morgan!!!!

@kriwe4013

1y↑1

anyone else prefer this over the original?

@pietwessel7262

Cool!!!

@emerpus01

13y

@punk2116 its got to be my personal favorite recording of anything ever.

@MarcoDrums95

12y

Art Blakey <3

@alphazeta99

12y↑5

I like how the comments on jazz videos are so clever and classy. My kinda people.

@JL-mu9sl

And he gets it all done in a suit and dress shoes.

@Auntkekebaby

13y

I'm about to blow up LOL! Ooold drum n bass :)))

@auztin101

13y↑6

an 11 minute long eargasm. mmmmm

@SuperRod88

13y

Happy Birthday Art Blakey (October 11) RIP

@charlesbarry971

2y↑1

A hard bop conservatory

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