Art Blakey and The Jazzmessengers, Album of The Year (1981)
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One of my first drum heroes was Art Blakey and his wonderful JazzMessengers – of which there were several incarnations. I’ve really only had stuff from the classic line-up but I knew that in the 1980s he brought in a few other new soon-to-be big names (Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard). So it …
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