Category Archives: Jazz Drum Books

Art Blakey – In Memoriam – October 16, 1990

This week we honor the late great jazz drumming icon, Art Blakey, who lived from October 11, 1919 until October 16, 1990. Art Blakey was a Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer and bandleader and is known, alongside Kenny Clarke and Max Roach as one of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming. Blakey was […]