Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Big Beat Format:180g LP playing to some of their

playing to some of their biggest audiences to date

As High As You Can Go

It compiles songs from their "Fat" EP (1981) and the albums "Milo Goes To College" (1982)

Hippo Campus significantly expanded their use of drum machines and synths

Massage the History

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Big Beat Format:180g LP playing to some of theirLabel: Not Now Music Reissued 2021, Originally released 1960 It takes one to know one. Which is why jazz drummers have always been ready to join the queue when assessing Art Blakey's influence, not only in the field of percussion but in the shaping of his chosen genre. Max Roach described him as "An original the only drummer whose time I recognise immediately. When I first met him on 52nd Street in 1944, he already had the polyrhythmic thing down. He