- Jazz musician.
- Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1982.
- The name of his band was the Jazz Messengers.
- Played drums.
- Changed his name to Abdullah Ibn Buhaina.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 110-112. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Recognised in jazz as the leader of the hard bop movement.
- Friends with Charlie Parker, and Johnny Griffin.
- Son of Bertram Thomas Blakey.
- Has ten children: daughters: Gwendolyn, Evelyn, Jackie, Kadijah, Sakeena, Akira, and sons: Art Blakey, Jr, Takashi, Kenji, and Gamal.
- Has six grandchildren.
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