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February 22, 1986 | A. JAMES LISKA
There is perhaps no more enduring or durable figure in all of jazz than drummer Art Blakey, who opened a four-night stand at Concerts by the Sea in Redondo Beach on Thursday night. At 66, he is into his fourth decade of leading the Jazz Messengers, a sextet whose casts of players have included more jazz greats than any other single unit in the history of the music.
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May 4, 1998 | BILL KOHLHAASE
When Art Blakey died in 1990, one of the better-known alumni of his Jazz Messengers ensemble, saxophonist Benny Golson, declared, "School is out." Through four decades, Blakey's ensemble had provided hands-on training for such important musicians as Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Cedar Walton, Wynton and Branford Marsalis and dozens of others. Using the Jazz Messengers name, Golson has assembled his own ensemble of Blakey veterans to keep the drummer-bandleader's memory alive.
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October 23, 1992 | ZAN STEWART
Despite the fact that the late drummer Art Blakey never wrote a tune, you could say there's an "Art Blakey Songbook," comprised of classics composed by members of his Jazz Messengers. Tuesday night at Catalina in Hollywood, four ex-Messengers, who'll be performing through Sunday, dusted off some of those gems, delivering a zesty tribute to Blakey.
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January 1, 1993 | LEONARD FEATHER
Ahhh, a new year and so many unknowns: Will Jay, Dave and Johnny be genetically spliced to produce the Ultimate Talk Show Host? Will the Yuppie-in-Chief name Stevie Nicks to run the NEA? Who will Sinead pick as her tag team partner against Madonna and the Pope? Will the activist group AWOE (Actresses With One Eyebrow) demand that one of them be chosen to play Frida Kahlo? Oh well, frivolity aside, one thing is certain: You'll be hearing these names and seeing these faces in the next 365.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 1, 1992 | LEONARD FEATHER
Trumpeter Wallace Roney, the jazz front-runner in the stakes for stardom next year, had all the advantages of a complete musical education--first with private teachers, then as a student at such respected institutions as Boston's Berklee College of Music. Between studies at Berklee, he became a member of Art Blakey's legendary Jazz Messengers, developing new ideas that earned him a prominent role in 1987 with the band of Miles Davis' ex-drummer, Tony Williams. But his career reached a climactic point last summer when he was invited by Davis to join him in a historic horn duet at the jazz festival in Montreux, Switzerland.
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April 6, 2010
MOVIES Open Projector Night The Sklar Brothers host an evening of short films (less than 10 minutes each) by novice auteurs in a wide range of genres and formats. Per the museum, filmmakers should think "showdown" rather than "showcase." Submissions accepted at 7 p.m.; screenings at 7:30 p.m. Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. Free. (310) 443-7000. hammer.ucla.edu. JAZZ Terence Blanchard The jazz composer scored many of Spike Lee's best films, but the hard bop artist first cut his teeth as a player with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.