Influential American jazz drummer and bandleader (1919-1990) who pioneered the bebop style. Over the years he worked with Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine, and then with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie before forming the Jazz Messengers in the mid-1950s. Three Blind Mice album by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, signed prominently on the front cover in black felt tip, "Thanks, sincerely, Art Blakey, 11/23/82." In fine condition, with a clipped lower right corner tip. The record is included.
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