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The Jazz Messengers (USA) – on YouTube


Years active

1955–1990

Genres

Jazz, Bebop, Hard bop

Current members

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Former members

Art Blakey – drums
Benny Green – piano
Bobby Timmons – piano
Cedar Walton – piano
Donald Brown – piano
Geoff Keezer – piano
George Cables – piano
Horace Silver – piano
James Williams – piano
John Hicks – piano
Johnny O'Neal – piano
Junior Mance – piano
Mulgrew Miller – piano
Sam Dockery – piano
Walter Davis, Jr. – piano
Manny Boyd – flute
Ramon Morris – flute
Curtis Fuller – trombone
Frank Lacy – trombone
Robin Eubanks – trombone
Steve Davis – trombone
Tim Williams – trombone
Bill Hardman – trumpet
Bryan Lynch – trumpet
Donald Byrd – trumpet
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Lee Morgan – trumpet
Philip Harper – trumpet
Terence Blanchard – trumpet
Valery Ponomarev – trumpet
Wallace Roney – trumpet
Woody Shaw – trumpet
Wynton Marsalis – trumpet
Bobby Watson – alto saxophone
Donald Harrison – alto saxophone
Gary Bartz – alto saxophone
Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
Kenny Garrett – alto saxophone
Buddy Terry – soprano saxophone
Benny Golson – tenor saxophone
Bill Pierce – tenor saxophone
Dale Barlow – tenor saxophone
David Schnitter – tenor saxophone
Javon Jackson – tenor saxophone
Jean Toussaint – tenor saxophone
John Gilmore – tenor saxophone
Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone
Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone
Ramon Morris – tenor saxophone
Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Carter Jefferson – tenor/soprano saxophone
Charles Fambrough – double bass
"Chin" Suzuki – double bass
Dennis Irwin – double bass
Doug Watkins – double bass
Essiet Okon Essiet – double bass
Jimmy "Spanky" DeBrest – double bass
Jymie Merritt – double bass
Leon Lee Dorsey – double bass
Lonnie Plaxico – double bass
Mickey Bass – double bass
Peter Washington – double bass
Reggie Workman – double bass
Victor Sproles – double bass
Stanley Clarke – electric bass
Emanuel Rahim – conga
Ray Mantilla – conga
Tony Waters – conga
Nataniel Bettis – percussion
Ray Mantilla – percussion
Richie "Pablo" Landrum – percussion
Sonny Morgan – percussion

Discography
(Studio albums)

The Jazz Messengers (1956)
Hard Bop (1957)
Ritual (1957)
Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... (1957)
A Night in Tunisia (1957)
Cu-Bop (1957)
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1958)
Hard Drive (1957)
Moanin' (1959)
The Big Beat (1960)
A Night in Tunisia (1960)
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1961)
Mosaic (1961)
The Freedom Rider (1962, recorded 1961)
Buhaina's Delight (1963)
Caravan (1963)
Golden Boy (1963)
Free for All (1964)
Kyoto (1964)
Indestructible (1965)
'S Make It (1965)
Soul Finger (1965)
Tough! (1966, recorded 1957)
Like Someone in Love (1966, recorded 1960)
The Witch Doctor (1967, recorded 1961)
Roots & Herbs (1970, recorded 1961)
Child's Dance (1972)
Buhaina (1973)
Anthenagin (1973)
In Walked Sonny (1975)
Backgammon (1976)
Gypsy Folk Tales (1977)
In My Prime Vol. 1 (1978)
In My Prime Vol. 2 (1978)
Reflections in Blue (1979)
Night in Tunisia: Digital Recording (1979)
Album of the Year (1981)
Oh-By the Way (1982)
New York Scene (1984)
Blue Night (1985)
Feeling Good (1986)
Not Yet (1988)
I Get a Kick Out of Bu (1988)
Chippin' In (1990)
One for All (1990)