Hard Bop Academy - Sidemen of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Hardcover
179 pgs.
Hal Leonard Corp., Publ.
Illustrated

Jazz legend Art Blakey was not only a distinguished, inventive, powerful drummer, but he was also one of jazz's foremost talent scouts. Bassist/novelist/journalist Alan Goldsher looks at some of the brilliant instrumentalists who helped make the Jazz Messengers one of the most enduring, popular, reliable, and vital small bands in modern jazz history. Featuring firsthand interviews with 24 former Jazz Messengers including Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Cedar Walton and Wynton Marsalis.