Andrew Dickeson leads an all-star group playing music from one of the world’s most famous Jazz bands – Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers.
With an evolving line-up that read like a who’s who of jazz – Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Horace Silver, Freddie Hubbard, Keith Jarrett and the Marsalis brothers to name but a few.
Andrew Dickeson and his quartet will honour this legendary drummer and his ensemble with a night of foot-tapping swing, featuring classic Jazz Messengers repertoire. In the 60s and 70s, listeners who had come to love jazz as their sophisticated popular music, found both swing and blues in abundance in the music of the Jazz Messengers, the quintessential hard bop ensemble led by drummer Art Blakey.