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Date of Birth
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11-October-1919
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Place of Birth
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Pittsburgh
(United States of America, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Area code 412, Area code 878)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Art Blakely, Blakey, Art, Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers, The Old Man, Bu, Arthur "Art" Blakey, The Tiger of Jazz, Jazz Tiger, Arthur (Art) Blakey, Abdulla Ibn Buhaina, William Arthur "Art" Blakey, Arthur Blakey
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Profession
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Jazz Drummer, Bandleader, Film Score Composer, Actor
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Arthur "Art" Blakey, known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, was an American Grammy Award-winning 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; his brand of bluesy, funky hard bop was and continues to be influential on mainstream jazz. For more than 30 years his band Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers included young musicians who went on to become prominent names in jazz. The band's legacy is thus not only known for the music it produced, but as a proving ground for several generations of jazz musicians; Blakey's groups are matched only by those of Miles Davis in this regard.
Blakey was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
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