Information about Art Blakey
Arthur Blakey (Abdullah Ibn Buhaina) (1919 - 1990) was an American jazz drummer. In the 1940s he was a member of Mary Lou Williams', Fletcher Henderson's, and Billy Eckstine's bands. He converted to Islam during a long visit to West Africa in the late 1940s and briefly took the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina. In 1955 he and Horace Silver founded the Jazz Messengers, a hard bop group which trained many of the most important young musicians of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Blakey took the group over when Silver left after the band's first year. He continued performing into the late 1980s.
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