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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According to professor Mike Molasky, author of the book Post War Jazz Culture in Japan, these cafes thrived between the 1950s and 1970s, when the Japanese discovered the genre through the scores of French New Wave films and a series of influential live performances by the band Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1961.

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The trumpeter, whose given name was Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II, rose to national prominence when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers later that year, filling the seat in the bebop group held by his idol Clifford Brown.

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He cut his teeth in two legendary jazz groups, playing with Lionel Hampton for two years and then, following in the footsteps of another New Orleans trumpeter, replacing Wynton Marsalis Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.

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He then rose to prominence when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers - replacing his idol Clifford Brown - and soon became one of the most in-demand trumpeters.

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