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| Name = Art Blakey

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| Img_capt = A promo picture of Art Blakey. © Francis Wolff

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| caption = [[Carlo J. Caparas]]' [[Kamandag]]

| Birth_name = Arthur Blakey

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| Alias = Abdullah Ibn Buhaina

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| Died = [[October 16]] [[1990]]

| creator = [[Carlo J. Caparas]]

| Origin = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]

| executive_producer = [[Wilma Galvante]]

| Instrument = [[Drum Set]], [[Percussion]]

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| Years_active = [[1940]]'s - [[1990]]'s

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| Label = [[Blue Note Records]]

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| Associated_acts = Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers</br>Art Blakey Quartet</br>Art Blakey Quintet</br>Art Blakey & the Afrocuban Boys

| language = [[Filipino language|Filipino]], [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], [[English language|English]]

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'''Kamandag''' (Virus) is an upcoming [[GMA Network]] fantasy [[Philippine drama]], from the creation of [[Carlo J. Caparas]] starring [[Richard Gutierrez]].

'''Arthur (Art) Blakey''' ([[October 11]] [[1919]]&ndash;[[October 16]] [[1990]]), also known as '''Abdullah Ibn Buhaina''', was an [[United States|American]] [[jazz]] [[drummer]] and [[bandleader]]. Along with [[Kenny Clarke]] and [[Max Roach]], he was one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. He is known as a powerful musician and a vital groover; his brand of bluesy, funky [[hard bop]] was (and remains) profoundly influential on mainstream jazz. Over more than 30 years his band the '''Jazz Messengers''' included many young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz, including [[Jackie McLean]], [[Clifford Brown]], [[Freddie Hubbard]], [[Wayne Shorter]], [[Curtis Fuller]], [[Donald Byrd]], [[Cedar Walton]], [[Lee Morgan]], [[Hank Mobley]], [[Johnny Griffin]], [[Benny Golson]], [[Bobby Timmons]], [[Jymie Merritt]], [[Chuck Mangione]], [[John Gilmore]], [[Woody Shaw]], [[Wynton Marsalis]], [[Branford Marsalis]], [[Gary Bartz]], [[Keith Jarrett]], [[Joanne Brackeen]], [[Brian Lynch (musician)|Brian Lynch]], [[James Williams]], [[Mulgrew Miller]], [[Benny Green (pianist)|Benny Green]], [[Donald Harrison]], [[Terence Blanchard]], and [[John Hicks (jazz pianist)|John Hicks]]. The band's legacy is thus not only the often exceptionally fine music it produced, but as a proving ground for several generations of jazz musicians; it is comparable only to [[Miles Davis]]'s bands in this regard.

Not much is known about this series, it is known that this will be [[Richard Gutierrez]]'s next show after his current series [[Lupin (Philippine TV series)|Lupin]].<ref>[http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/feb0507/showbiz_al.htm GMA 7, siksik sa mga pasabog], '' mb.com.ph'', n.d. Accessed last May 14, 2007.</ref> This will also be Gutirrez's second role based on a comic book superhero, his first was playing the lead and title role in [[Captain Barbell (TV series)|Captain Barbell]].

==Early career==

In the 1940s, Blakey was a member of bands led by [[Mary Lou Williams]], [[Fletcher Henderson]], and [[Billy Eckstine]]. He converted to [[Islam]] during a visit to West [[Africa]] in the late 1940s and took the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina (which led to the nickname "Bu"). The African visit is the subject of some dispute as he was never absent from America for the length of time claimed. Some suspect the trip never took place. By the late forties and early fifties, Blakey was backing musicians such as [[Miles Davis]], [[Bud Powell]] and [[Thelonious Monk]] &mdash; he is often considered to have been Monk's most sympathetic drummer, and he played on both Monk's first recording session as a leader (for [[Blue Note Records]] in 1947) and his final one (in [[London]] in 1971), as well as many in between.

==Plot==

==The Jazz Messengers==

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[[Image:Blakey.jpg|thumb|200px|'''Cover art for Blakey's "Moanin'"''']]

The origins of the Messengers are in a series of groups led or co-led by Blakey and pianist [[Horace Silver]], though the name was not used on the earliest of their recordings. The most celebrated of these early records (credited to "The Art Blakey Quintet"), is ''A Night at Birdland'' from February 1954, one of the earliest commercially released "live" jazz records. This featured Silver, Blakey, the young trumpeter [[Clifford Brown]], alto saxophonist [[Lou Donaldson]] and bassist [[Curly Russell]]. The "Jazz Messengers" name was first used on a [[1954]] recording nominally led by Silver, with Blakey, [[Hank Mobley]], [[Kenny Dorham]] and [[Doug Watkins]] &mdash; the same quintet would record ''The Jazz Messengers at the Cafe Bohemia'' the following year, still as a collective. [[Donald Byrd]] replaced Dorham, and the group recorded an album called simply ''The Jazz Messengers'' for [[Columbia Records]] in 1956. Blakey took over the group name when Silver left after the band's first year (taking Mobley, Byrd and Watkins with him to form a new quintet with a variety of drummers), and the band was known as "Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers" from then onwards.

==Cast and Characters==

Two of the group's most famous lineups featured [[Wayne Shorter]] on saxophone. The first was a quintet that existed from 1959 to 1961 and included Blakey, Shorter, [[Jymie Merritt]], [[Lee Morgan]], and [[Bobby Timmons]]. The second (1961&ndash;1964) was a sextet that added trombonist [[Curtis Fuller]] and replaced Morgan and Timmons with [[Freddie Hubbard]] and [[Cedar Walton]], respectively. Shorter was the musical director of the group, and many of his original compositions such as "Lester Left Town" remained staples of Blakey's repertoire even after Shorter's departure. (Other players over the years made permanent marks on Blakey's repertoire &mdash; Timmons, composer of "Dat Dere" and "Moanin'", [[Benny Golson]], composer of "Along Came Betty" and "Are You Real", and, later, Bobby Watson.) Shorter's more experimental inclinations pushed the band at the time into an engagement with the 1960s "New Thing", as it was called: the influence of Coltrane's contemporary records on Impulse! is evident on ''Free For All'' (1964), often cited as the greatest document of the Shorter-era Messengers (and certainly one of the most fearsomely powerful examples of hard bop on record).

*[[Richard Gutierrez]] as Kamandag

*[[Maxene Magdalona]]

==LaterSee careeralso==

*[[List of programs broadcast by GMA Network]]

Blakey went on to record dozens of albums with a constantly changing group of Jazz Messengers &mdash; he had a policy of encouraging young musicians: as he remarked on-mike on ''A Night at Birdland'' (1954): "I'm gonna stay with the youngsters. When these get too old I'll get some younger ones. Keeps the mind active." After weathering the fusion era of the 1960s and 1970s with some difficulty (recordings from this period are less plentiful and include attempts to incorporate instruments like electric piano), Blakey's band got a shot in the arm in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the advent of neotraditionalist jazz. [[Wynton Marsalis]] was for a time the band's trumpeter and musical director, and even after Marsalis's departure Blakey's band continued as a proving ground for many so-called "Young Lion" players. Blakey continued performing and touring with the group into the late 1980s, and he died in 1990 in [[New York City]], leaving behind a vast legacy and approach to jazz which is still the model for countless hard-bop players.

*[[Bakekang]] - a series based on a [[Carlo J. Caparas]] comic

==References==

Up to the 1960s Blakey also recorded as a sideman with many other musicians: [[Jimmy Smith (musician)|Jimmy Smith]], [[Herbie Nichols]], [[Cannonball Adderley]], [[Miles Davis]], [[Grant Green]], and Jazz Messengers graduates [[Lee Morgan]] and [[Hank Mobley]], amongst many others. However, after the mid-1960s he mostly concentrated on his own work as a leader.

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==Awards==

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* [[Jazz Mobile]] ''Development and Preservation of Jazz'' (1970)

* [[Newport Jazz Festival|Newport Jazz Festival Hall of Fame]] (1976)

* [[Downbeat|Downbeat Jazz Hall of Fame]] ''Reader's Choise Award'' (1981)

* [[Smithsonian|Smithsonian Performing Arts]] ''Certificate of Appreciation'' (1982)

* [[Lee Morgan Memorial Award]] (1982)

* [[Jazz Hall of Fame]] Inducttion (1983)

* [[Grammy Award]] [[Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group]] (1984) for the album New York Scene

* [[Jazznote Award]] (1986)

* ''Doctorate of Music'' (1987; [[Berklee College of Music]])

* [[Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award]] (1991)

* [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] Induction for the album ''Moanin''' (2001)

* [[Pittsburgh Jazz Festival|Pittsburgh Jazz Festival Award]]

* [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award]] (2005; awarded posthumously)

== Discography ==

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*1954: ''[[A Night at Birdland Vol. 1]]'' (live, billed as "The Art Blakey Quintet") (Blue Note)

*1954: ''[[A Night at Birdland Vol. 2]]'' (live, billed as "The Art Blakey Quintet") (Blue Note)

*1955: ''[[At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1]]'' (live, billed as "The Jazz Messengers") (Blue Note)

*1955: ''[[At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2]]'' (live, billed as "The Jazz Messengers") (Blue Note)

*1956: ''The Jazz Messengers'' (Columbia)

*1957: ''[[Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk]]'' (Atlantic/Rhino)

*1957: ''Orgy in Rhythm'' (Blue Note)

*1958: ''[[Moanin']]'' (Blue Note)

*1958: ''1958 Paris Olympia'' (Fontana)

*1958: ''Des Femmes Disparaissent/Les Tricheurs'' (Fontana)

*1959: ''At the Jazz Corner of the World'' (live) (Blue Note)

*1959: ''Live in Stockholm 1959'' (DIW)

*1959: ''Live in Stockholm 1959'' (Dragon) &mdash; recorded on the same day as the previous disc

*1960: ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960'' (Fontana)

*1960: ''The Big Beat'' (Blue Note)

*1960: ''Unforgettable Lee!'' (Fresh Sound)

*1960: ''[[A Night in Tunisia (album)|A Night in Tunisia]]'' (Blue Note)

*1960: ''More Birdland Sessions'' (Fresh Sound)

*1960: ''Live in Stockholm 1960'' (Dragon)

*1960: ''Lausanne 1960 First Set'' (TCB)

*1960: ''Lausanne 1960 Second Set'' (TCB)

*1960: ''Like Someone in Love'' (Blue Note)

*1961: ''Roots and Herbs'' (Blue Note)

*1961: ''Jazz Messengers'' (Impulse!)

*1961: ''Mosaic'' (Blue Note)

*1961: ''The Freedom Rider'' (Blue Note)

*1961: ''The Witch Doctor'' (Blue Note)

*1961: ''Buhaina's Delight'' (Blue Note)

*1962: ''Three Blind Mice'' volumes 1 and 2 (Blue Note)

*1962: ''Caravan'' (Original Jazz Classics)

*1962: ''The African Beat'' (Blue Note)

*1963: ''Ugetsu'' (Original Jazz Classics)

*1963: ''A Jazz message'' (Impulse!)

*1964: ''Free for All'' (Blue Note)

*1964: ''Kyoto'' (Original Jazz Classics)

*1964: ''Indestructible''

*1966: ''Buttercorn Lady'' (Limelight)

*1973: ''Child's Dance'' (Prestige)

*1973: ''Mission Eternal'' (Prestige)

*1973: ''Buhaina'' (Prestige)

*1977: ''In My Prime'' volume 1 (Timeless)

*1978: ''In This Korner'' (Concord)

*1981: ''In Sweden'' (Evidence)

*1981: ''Straight Ahead (Concord)

*1982: ''Keystone 3'' (Concord)

*1984: ''New York Scene'' (Concord)

*1985: ''Live at Kimball's'' (Concord)

*1988: ''Not Yet'' (Soul Note)

*1988: ''I Get a Kick out of Bu'' (Soul Note)

*1990: ''Chippin' In'' (Timeless)

==External links==

* [http://www.artblakey.com/ Official Art Blakey website]

* [http://www.myspace.com/artblakeyandthejazzmessengers Unofficial Art Blakey MySpace page]

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