| Blues March: Portrait of Art Blakey | ||||
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| Studio album by New York Rhythm Machine | ||||
| Recorded | October 19, 1992 | |||
| Studio | Sear Sound, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Venus | |||
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Blues March: Portrait of Art Blakey is an album by the New York Rhythm Machine, led by pianist John Hicks.
Pianist John Hicks was part of Art Blakey's band for two years from 1964. [1] [2] Blakey died in 1990. [3]
The album was recorded at Sear Sound, New York City, on October 19, 1992. [4] The musicians were Hicks, bassist Marcus McLaurine, and drummer Victor Lewis. [4]
Blues March: Portrait of Art Blakey was released by Venus Records. [4] Venus later issued a CD, entitled Moanin': Portrait of Art Blakey, credited to Hicks as leader, that used some of the tracks from the Blues March album and some from an earlier release with the title Moanin': Portrait of Art Blakey. [4] [5]
Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz that incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing.
Edward Lee Morgan was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, and playing in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
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"Yes sir, I'm gonna to stay with the youngsters. When these get too old, I'm gonna get some younger ones. Keeps the mind active."
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