Arthur Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s.
Blakey c. 1964
Blakey on a tour billed as part of the "Giants of Jazz" in Hamburg, Germany, in 1973
Performing at the Umeå jazz festival, Sweden. 1979
Blakey in 1982
William Clarence Eckstine was an American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader during the swing and bebop eras. He was noted for his rich, almost operatic bass-baritone voice. In 2019, Eckstine was posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award "for performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." His recording of "I Apologize" was given the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. The New York Times described him as an "influential band leader" whose "suave bass-baritone" and "full-throated, sugary approach to popular songs inspired singers like Earl Coleman, Johnny Hartman, Joe Williams, Arthur Prysock, and Lou Rawls."
Eckstine in c.1946
Sarah Vaughan and Eckstine at Monterey Jazz Festival 1981
Historical Marker in Highland Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania