Free For All: The Art Blakey Sextet Project

About this event

Notable for fostering the talents of emerging players Blakey enlisted some of the most significant practitioners in the history of the music. Notable examples are Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Woody Shaw, Cedar Walton, and Wynton and Branford Marsalis, to name just a handful.

Many of the compositions that these members would pen for the group went on to become some of the most beloved arrangements for Jazz sextet in all of the music. Free For All will be performing the original arrangements of many of the most iconic works from the Jazz Messengers book – pieces that overflow with joyful hard bop in a way that is always swingin’. This powerful, exciting music will be performed by an all-star line up of Irish jazz musicians:

Linley Hamilton - Trumpet

Daniel Rorke - Tenor Sax

Colm O’Hara - Trombone

Scott Flanigan - Piano

Cormac O’Brien - Bass

Kevin Brady - Drums