A Concert of music from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers



Featuring the USF Faculty Jazz Ensemble



With special guest Jon DePaola, trumpet



The USF Jazz Studies Program presents an evening of classic jazz from the recordings of the great 

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.   From the 50 s through the 90 s, Art Blakey led the Jazz 

Messengers, a group which featured the best young talent in Jazz.  This evening s concert will 

showcase music from many of those groups that included such jazz legends as Horace Silver, Clifford 

Brown, Hank Mobley, Junior Cook, Blue Mitchell, Bobby Timmons, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, 

Curtis Fuller and Branford and Wynton Marsalis.



Join us for an evening of GREAT MUSIC.