Just magnificent! What Art Blakey did for jazz in general is astonishing. The best hard-bop band ever. Those magic years were the best times in Jazz and never surpassed. Cheers!

Classic!!! remember this on British TV..you wouldn't get this now!!! Great Band!!!

art blakey is telling the audience to buy a jazz album every once and a while to keep the jazz industry alive and to introduce jazz to people who aren't already exposed to it

This was my first taste of young Wynton that blew me away, and Branford of course. Father Marsalis r.i.p. a great piano player. Something in those Marsalis genes the way the entire family keeps the jazz going.

I love anything Art Blakey plays

Billy pierce !!!

I love the Marsalis family. My eldest son is named after Wynton and the second born after Branford. Branford passed on in 2018 at the tender age of 25

I just saw Billy Pierce with Ralph Petersons Jazz Messengers Tribute in Philly the other night, wow! Just amazing... great to still hear that music!!!

The University of Art Blakey. Wow. Clifford Brown played with Art. Wow

Unbelievably baddass! Jazz has never been better!

Blakey is the "force of nature"--no drummer has equaled his sheer power and forcefulness--for which he paid a price (he was nearly deaf by the 2nd half of the '80s). On set by Art stands out in memory: In the mid-70s I heard the Messengers play the 2nd half of a Newport concert at Carnegie Hall. The first half was Horace Silver's quintet--with the 2 Breckers in the frontline. But the solos were restricted, with the tunes and programming so forumlaic that much of it sounded like pleasant pop music. By contrast, the Messengers represented the fire and, above all, the "freedom" that is the hallmark of great jazz. Any representative collection of the Messengers must include the early onlocation work with Silver (and Clifford or Lee or K.D.--all on Blue Note) and the rich and warm inventiveness of the program entitled "The Jazz Messengers" on Columbia (arrangements by Silver, with Byrd, Mobley, and Watkins -- esp. masterworks like "Ecaroh" and "Nica's Dream." And the hungriest, most exciting Messengers may have been the '70s quintets, when most of Art's gigs, and all of his recordings, were in England, Holland, italy, Japan. The underrated, lightning-fast, irreproachable ole pro Bill Hardman (3 decades with Art) would take several unaccompanied choruses--on trumpet! Newcomer Dave Schnitter was playing like a young Dexter. Finally, the compositions by Walter Davis Jr. remained unequaled in daring and difficulty--Gypsy Folk Tales, Uranus, Jody--jazz' equivalent of Puccini in their sweep and grandeur--mostly available on LP. (Schnitter himself made 4 killer albums for Muse, not a single one reissued.) The present set has lots of Dorian fire and open-ended blowing (even "My Ship" is a 2-chord song) along with dramatic dynamics. But it's eerily detached and unengaging (except for the "Rhythm" chase tune--with chords courtesy of Mr. Gershwin). How about some songs by B (Art's fav big band)? The records Art says he made 40 years ago are all in my collection: they include blues (not one here!), Once in a While, Yesterdays, Blue Moon. and numerous bebop tunes based on Cherokee, Indiana, Lover Come Back, What Is This Thing? and, not least of all, the modern jazz anthem that Art watched Diz write on the bottom of a garbage can: "A Night in Tunisia" (the band always stopped on the penultimate note--based on an "A alt" chord that tested the inventiveness of every player on the bandstand. Finally, the main challenger Freddie waved a white hanky, and Hardman prevailed once again, remaining to play the triumphant tonic (D min) alone.

WaAllah hearing Art Blakey and friends make s me want to be among the aarifeen!!

heard this very group live at fat tuesday's club in nyc 1981..,, burning!!

Yes thats exactly right. What Art Blakey said about keepind jazz alive is exactly what the members the messangers are doing now. Think of Branford and Wynton. They both are accomplished musicians who are inspiring young people and teaching the beauty of jazz music. People like them have influenced even newer jazz musicians to take the spotlight and those musicians will influence musicians after them! Its a long thread. People who think that jazz is dying should really think again. Its alive!

Yehbo!!!! The Best!!!! I had an opportunity to meet them, {especially My friend Wynton from Back home} back then; here at Keystone Korner on Broadway in San Francisco!!!!

Beautifully Put Caponsacchi a Force of Nature I couldn't agree with you more Dizzy call Blakey the VOLCANO and He lives up to that name Beautifully Such a Legend God I Miss This Magnificent Drummer so inspiring as a fellow drummer

3:46...that groove that Art Blakey is playing.

10:42 to 19:46 MY SHIP (Kurt Weill, 1941, from musical Lady in the Dark) 19:50 THE THEME (Miles Davis)

Incredibile 🎵🎼❤️🔝

I love it!

amazing! great! the best!

WYNTON楽器の鳴らし方完璧だな、もうこの頃から。

The best

16:38 the lick

stamina for days!!!

Looks like a silver Bach 37/43/72... and the mouthpiece?

LMBOO!!! 3:11 will Smith from pursuit of happiness

Can anybody plz write down the track-list ? Τhank you!! :)

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Wow!!! Mr Wynton Marsalis used to be will smith :p

Anyone know the name of the tune at 2:00, Branford's solo is something else, would love the changes to do a transcription on.

What is the name of the opening tune?

GOOD STUF, WE NED MORE JAZZ MUSHIONS

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Will Smith on 3:10.

Anyone know the names of these songs?

Taxifahrer Musik!

Jazz's dark age, silly fucking heads and worse solos.This shit is so corny. Bless you Barry Harris for carrying the torch , teaching and making music that matters.