Art Blakey
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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
Blakey performing at the Umeå jazz festival in Sweden in 1979
Blakey in 1982
Jymie Merritt
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Jymie Merritt was an American jazz bassist, bandleader, and composer. Merritt was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers group from 1957 until 1962. The same year he left Blakey's band, Merritt form
Merritt in 2008 at the annual Don Redman Heritage Awards, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Jymie Merritt with Lee Morgan (left) and Wayne Shorter (right) in The Jazz Messengers