Art blakey

By Claire O'Neill In the 1950's, photography was hardly considered art. If you wanted to be taken seriously as a photographer, you snapped mountains and models — not your neighbors. It also helped to be white. But Roy DeCarava, turned all of t...

The celebrated images of jazz photographer Francis Wolff on the 75th anniversary of Blue Note records.

One of the Blue Note label's definitive hard bop artists, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley remains somewhat underappreciated for his straightforward, swinging style. Any characterization of Mobley invariably begins with critic Leonard Feather's assertion that he was the

A Blue Note Founder’s View of Jazz Music’s Private Side | The New Yorker

Hard bop emerged in the 1950s, spearheaded by the likes of Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Art Blakey, Jackie McLean and Sonny Rollins, who between them made some outstanding albums that still resonate loudly today

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Bobby Timmons sitting at a piano smoking a cigarette. Timmons was a pianist and composer recording as a bandleader as well as sideman with Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, and others.