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 | | '''Arthur (Art) Blakey''', also known as '''Abdullah Ibn Buhaina''', (October 11, 1919 - October 16, 1990) was an United States American jazz drummer and bandleader. |
 | | In 1955, he and a fellow hard bop musician Horace Silver founded the Jazz Messengers, an acoustic hard bop ensemble which featured many of the most significant young jazz musicians at various points of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, including Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley and Wynton Marsalis. |
 | | He died in 1990 in New York City, leaving behind a vast legacy and approach to jazz which still survives today, through the recordings of Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, and other "Young Lions". |
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