Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

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Archetypal hard-bop group of the late 1950s, most date their origin to 1954 or '55 when the first recordings credited to the band appeared. Playing a driving, aggressive extension of bop with pronounced blues roots, the group continued until [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/29977-Art-Blakey]Blakey[/url]'s death in 1990. The name Jazz Messengers had been used by [a=Art Blakey] earlier, but when [a=Horace Silver] and [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/29977-Art-Blakey]Blakey[/url] began worki