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Secondary Messengers at Schwemm's Coffee House Keefe Campus Center At Amherst College
Courtesy of Mark Dunlap | Posted on February 3, 2018
Where
Schwemm's Coffee House Keefe Campus Center At Amherst College
16 Barrett Hill Road
Amherst, MA
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When
Thu, March 29, 2018
9:00 pm
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About
The Secondary Messengers are devoted to recreating the music of the influential ensembles of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded from the early ’50s to the late ’80s. Noted for improvisation in the funky hard bop idiom with close harmonic lines, an intense driving rhythm section, and meticulously crafted arrangements by composer-band members such as Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter and Kenny Dorham, the Jazz Messengers served as a school for many young musicians who later went on to notable careers as leaders of their own groups. They were also an inspiration to generations of jazz musicians who never played with Blakey...