Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Art Blakey
by Art Blakey
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 7 November 2000
- Label: Verve
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:13:46
- Community rating: 4.3/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A companion to Ken Burns' documentary series sampling Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers recordings, the hard bop institution he led for four decades. Blakey's press rolls and shouted encouragement drove a finishing school for young soloists from Horace Silver to Wynton Marsalis.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, piano, saxophone, virtuosic, rhythmic
Tracklist
- Confirmation (9:10)
- Doodlin' (6:48)
- Evidence (6:44)
- Moanin' (9:35)
- Blues March (6:14)
- A Night In Tunisia (11:16)
- Free For All (11:10)
- When Love Is New (6:05)
- Ms. B.C. (6:44)
Credits
- Art Blakey - primary artist, drums, narrator [spoken introduction]
- Buddy Squires - cinematographer
- Aaron Vega - film editor [episode]
- Craig Mellish - film editor [episode]
- Erik Ewers - film editor [episode]
- Lewis Erskine - film editor [episode]
- Paul Barnes - film editor [episode], film editor [supervising]
- Sandra Marie Christie - film editor [episode]
- Ken Burns - a&r, a&r [commitee], executive-producer, film director, film producer
- Lynn Novick - a&r, a&r [commitee], film producer
- Peter Miller - a&r, a&r [commitee], film producer [co-producer]
- Richard Seidel - a&r, a&r [commitee], compilation producer
- Seth Rothstein - a&r, a&r [commitee], project manager [project director]
- Sarah Bostein - a&r [commitee], film producer [associate], project manager [project director]
- Michael Brooks - a&r, a&r [commitee]
- Steve Berkowitz - a&r, a&r [commitee]
- Victoria Gohl - film producer [co-producer], research [photo]
- Adam Owett - art direction
- Hollis King - art direction
- Howard Fritzson - art direction
- Nathan Savage - design
- Jeff Jones - executive-producer
- Ronald Goldstein - executive-producer
- Natalie Bullock Brown - film producer [associate]
- Shola Lynch - film producer [associate]
- Peter Keepnews - liner notes [edited]
- Adam Block - management [project]
- Bryan Koniarz - management [project]
- Ken Druker - management [project]
- Nate Herr - management [project]
- Clare Walker - management [series package]
- John Christiana - management [series package]
- Lauren Atlas - management [series package]
- Kevin Reeves - mastered by
- Herman Leonard - photography by
- Lee Tanner - photography by
- Paul Hoeffler - photography by
- Charlie Parker - written-by
- Dizzy Gillespie - written-by
- Frank Paparelli - written-by