Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers performed in Kobe in January that year, and I got a ticket for a birthday present.

那一年﹐我15岁。艾特和爵士乐使者于一月的时候在神户演奏﹐而我的生日礼物就是入场券。

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It's also reminiscent of drummer Kendrick Scott's inspiration: another drummer-led group, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

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One night, with her four small children tucked in, Brackeen ran down to Slug's to hear Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

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Toward the end, Nash said, "No tribute to Blue Note records would be complete without honoring Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, " and then launched "Mosaic, " a song from the early 1960s by Cedar Walton with blistering cymbals, struck from above and below.

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