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The correct answer is Art Blakey!
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Art Blakey, c. 1964
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…..Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
…..Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He then worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s, Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group which he led for the next 35 years. The group was formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Johnny Griffin, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Woody Shaw, and Wynton Marsalis.
…..Blakey was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1981, and the Grammy Hall of Fame. He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
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