Talk:Art Blakey

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[edit] Redirects here

I've redirected Jazz Messengers here, because apart from the brief period when Silver was in the group, the Jazz Messengers were just a name for Art Blakey's backing band.
--Andrew Norman 10:29, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Sympathetic"

"he is often considered to be Monk's most sympathetic drummer": What does it mean to be a sympathetic drummer?
-Taco325i 14:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Monk had very definite ideas about what he wanted a drummer to do, and how the band should treat the rhythm of his compositions (some of the dancing on stage was to get the band to play in the rhythm he wanted). I've read a couple of pieces saying that he felt Blakey was one of the few drummers who instinctively knew what he wanted without having to be instructed. I'll try to find a reference.
--ajn (talk) 14:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the very thorough answer, I learned something new today.
-Taco325i 14:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
When WP is working at its best, these personal increases of insight are sources of directions to edit in. In this case, the occasion of the question is a more or less cryptic use of the word "sympathetic". Besides the need to come up with the sources (i did convert an "OR" tag into a "fact" one), there probably should be a lk on the word. I doubt (but what do i know about jazz!) that we should have a Sympathy in jazz article, but perhaps there is a section in Jazz, or one of the articles that it links to which are specific to the nature of jazz, that explains this kind of collegiality using the word (or perhaps mentioning the word would improve the article). In that case, IMO a link coded as [[Characteristics of jazz#Collegiality|sympathy]] would not only be un-cryptic enough to be acceptable, but also be a specific improvement.
--Jerzy•t 17:48, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blakey as coach

In today's Terry Gross interview with Terence Blanchard, he describes Blakey's nurturing of the careers of his players, e.g. by urging them to compose when they were anxious to play the jazz classics that brought them into jazz. Maybe i just missed that in my scan of the accompanying article, or maybe that's equally true of a dozen more of the great band leaders, but AFAIK it's an aspect of him that needs to be added.
--Jerzy•t 17:48, 25 October 2007 (UTC)