Hard Bop Academy

The Sidemen of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

• Author(s): Alan Goldsher,
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
• Pages: 179
• ISBN_10: 0634037935
  ISBN_13: 9780634037931
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Music / Genres & Styles / Jazz , Music / History & Criticism , Music / Reference ,

Description:... 'Hard Bop Academy - The sidemen of art Blakey's Jazz messengers' examines the multitude of gifted artists who populated the many editions of the Jazz Messengers. In addition to dissecting the sidemen's most consequential work with Blakey's band, jazz musician and Alan Goldsher offers up engaging profiles of everyone from Wynton Marsalis to Terence Blanchard to Hank Mobley to Wayne Shorter to Horace Silver to Keith Jarrett to Curtis Fuller to Steve Davis. Goldsher conducted over 30 interviews with surviving graduates of Blakey's Hard Bop Academy, many of whom spoke at length of their tenure with the legendary 'Buhaina' for the first time.