Art Blakey Quotes

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On a live performance: "If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing."

Art Blakey

So go on and play, and if you make a mistake, make it loud so you won't make it next time.

Art Blakey

A name doesn't make the music. Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.

Art Blakey

Art Blakey

Art Blakey

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Born: October 11, 1919

Died: October 16, 1990 (aged 71)

Bio: Art Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he became a Muslim.

Known for:

Moanin' (1958)
A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (1954)
The Big Beat (1960)
Orgy in Rhythm (1957)
The African Beat (1962)

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