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A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
If you feel like patting your feet, pat your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing.
Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people... (more Art Blakey quotes)
Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1982.
The name of his band was the Jazz Messengers.
Changed his name to Abdullah Ibn Buhaina.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 110-112. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.... (more Art Blakey trivia)
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