Cory Weeds Plays Art Blakey celebrates the music of a jazz legend, at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts October 16

Cory Weeds forms a quintet that riffs on the legacy of the influential drummer and bandleader

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Cory Weeds

Local tenor-saxophone star Cory Weeds pays tribute to jazz legend Art Blakey on October 16 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts’s intimate Studio Theatre.

Joining him onstage are trumpet player Brad Turner, pianist Christ Gestrin, bass player John Lee, and drummer Jesse Cahill.

The drummer and band leader Blakey was one of the most influential figures in jazz, founding The Jazz Messengers in the late 1940s and recording dozens of albums with a constantly changing group of “Messengers”. He performed and toured with the group through the 1980s.

Like no other band leader of the 20th century, he hired and nurtured some of the most talented jazz musicians of the time, providing opportunities for several generations of jazz musicians. Many Messengers alumni went on to become jazz stars in their own right, including Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Branford Marsalis, Kenny Garrett, and Javon Jackson, and the pianists Horace Silver, Bobby Timmons, Cedar Walton, John Hicks, James Williams, Mulgrew Miller, and Bennie Green.

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