Thursday 24th April 2025
Location: Billy Byrnes 39 John St Kilkenny
Formed by drummer Art Blakey in the 1950s as a collective, The Jazz Messengers
occupies a special place in the annals of Jazz music in the twentieth century.
Notable for fostering the talents of emerging players Blakey enlisted some of the
most significant practitioners in the history of the music. Notable examples are
Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Woody
Shaw, Cedar Walton, and Wynton and Branford Marsalis, to name just a handful.
Many of the compositions that these members would pen for the group went on to
become some of the most beloved arrangements for Jazz sextet in all of the music.
Aren’t Blakey will be performing the original arrangements of many of the most iconic
works from the Jazz Messengers book – pieces that overflow with joyful hard bop in
a way that is always swingin’.
LINLEY HAMILTON – TRUMPET
TOM CARRAHER – TENOR
SAXOPHONE
COLM O’HARA – TROMBONE
GREG FELTON – PIANO
CORMAC O’BRIEN – BASS
SHANE O’DONOVAN – DRUMS
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