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Art Blakey: Jazz Messenger
Author: Gourse, Leslie
Hardback; Book; B&w Photographs 300 pages Published: February 2003 Omnibus Press
ISBN: 0825672724 This item non-returnable. Order may not be canceled.
In the 1950s, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers introduced hard bop, a blend of bebop, blues, gospel and Latin music that has defined jazz mainstream ever since. Leslie Gourse chronicles Blakey's colourful life and career, from his childhood in Pittsburgh to his final years as a jazz icon.

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