Art Blakey

Known for: Sound / Music
Date of birth: 1919. October 11.
Place of birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) 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 made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy E...