Art Blakey and Horace Silver formed the Jazz Messengers in 1955 and co-led it. When Silver dropped out in the group's first year the group name was changed to Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Wayne Shorter was a long-standing member of the group, joining after the departure of Benny Golson, while other young musicians like Curtis Fuller, Donald Byrd, James 'Blood' Ulmer,Jymie Merritt, Hank Mobley, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons and Wynton Marsalis would come and go.
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers has had 7 concerts.
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers is most often considered to be Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Swing, Bebop, Hard Bop, Free Jazz, Jazz Drums, Afro-Cuban Jazz, and Afro-Jazz.
The last Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers concert was on September 02, 1989 at Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington, United States. The bands that performed were: Al Green / Chris Isaak / Joan Jett & The Blackhearts / Sir Mix-A-Lot / B.B. King / Dr. John / Little Richard / George Thorogood & The Destroyers / George Clinton / Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / Johnny Winter / the rippingtons / Bobby “Blue” Bland / Phoebe Snow / NRBQ / Joe Louis Walker / Hank Ballard And The Midnighters / K.T. Oslin / Seattle Symphony / Trilok Gurtu / Zachary Richard / Ronnie Earl and The Broadcasters / Livingston Taylor / Stan Freberg / Nana Vasconcelos / Tracy Nelson / Fatala / Wayne Horvitz / Marti Jones / Crazy 8s / Mitch Woods And His Rocket 88's / Zion Harmonizers / Valerie Wellington / Alexander Cockburn / Otis Rush With Ronnie Earl / Jerome Rothenberg / Guillermo Gomez-pena / Pacific Northwest Ballet.
The songs that Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the August 14, 1987 concert at Chapiteau in Marciac, France:
