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- DIED. Art Blakey, 71, drummer and bandleader whose Jazz
- Messengers served for almost four decades as a training ground
- for top musicians; of lung cancer; in New York City. A veteran
- of the Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine big bands, Blakey
- worked with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, and founded the
- Messengers in the 1940s. Pianist Keith Jarrett, saxophonist
- Jackie McLean and trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Wynton
- Marsalis were a few of the artists he nurtured into stardom.
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