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Blakey is a surname, and may refer to: People * Art Blakey, an American jazz musician **Blakey (album), ''Blakey'' (album), a 1954 album by Art Blakey * DJ Blakey, a DJ from London, UK *George Blakey may refer to: ** George Blakey, an English cricketer **George D. Blakey, an American politician and former Mayor of Tulsa ** G. Robert Blakey, an American law professor and an expert on organized crime * John Blakey, an Australian football player * Marion Blakey, an American businesswoman * Michael Blakey (other) * Nicholas Blakey (died 1758), Irish-born draughtsman and engraver * Richard Blakey, an English cricketer * Ted Blakey, American businessman, activist, and historian Fictional people * Cyril "Blakey" Blake, an inspector in sitcom ''On the Buses'' played by Stephen Lewis (actor), Stephen Lewis See also * Blaikie * Blake (surname), Blake {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Blakey
Arthur Blakey (October 11, 1919 – October 16, 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s. Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He then worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s, Horace Silver and Blakey formed The Jazz Messengers, a group which he led for the next 35 years. The group was formed as a collective of contemporaries, but over the years the band became known as an incubator for young talent, including Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Jackie McLean, Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller, Chuck Mangione, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Cedar Walton, Woody Shaw, Terence Blanchard, and Wynton Marsalis. ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'' calls the Jazz Messengers "the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blakey (album)
''Blakey'' is an album by drummer Art Blakey recorded in 1954 and originally released on the EmArcy label as a 10-inch LP. The album was rereleased on CD in 1999 with bonus tracks originally released on the album '' Introducing Joe Gordon''. The album has also been released as "The Complete Art Blakey on EmArcy", including four songs from a March 24 recording session. Reception Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars calling it "a mandatory acquisition for Blakey fans and those who enjoy bop".Dryden, KAllmusic Review accessed June 26, 2013 Track listing ''All compositions by Gigi Gryce except as indicated'' # "Minority" - 3:09 # "Salute to Birdland" - 3:01 # "Eleanor" - 2:55 # "Futurity" - 2:57 # "Simplicity" - 2:52 # "Strictly Romantic" - 2:47 # "Hello" - 2:41 # "Mayreh" (Horace Silver) - 3:18 # "Rifftide" (Coleman Hawkins) - 6:27 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Lady Bob" (Quincy Jones) - 6:54 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Grasshopper" (Jones) - 6:58 Bonus track on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DJ Blakey
DJ Blakey (born 3 September 1985) is a DJ from London, England. He won the UK DMC final in 2004. Career Between 2004 and 2007, he hosted a weekly show on BBC 1Xtra. He has held a residency at Fabric, London. In 2007 he supported Jurassic 5 throughout their entire UK tour, and has also supported Nas in 2007 at the Bristol Academy, and Jay-Z in 2004 at the Prince's Trust Urban Music Festival. He was employed by FreeStyleGames, a subsidiary of Activision, where he was working closely on the video game '' DJ Hero''. He collaborated with composer Daniel Pemberton as a scratch DJ on the score for the movies '' Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'' and '' Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse''. Trivia *He contributed the first ever "Mini Mix" on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show, days before competing in the 2004 DMC World Final. *In 2001 at the UK ITF Final at Cargo nightclub in Shoreditch Shoreditch is an area in London, England and is located in the London Borough of Hackney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Blakey
George Matthew Blakey (20 January 1907 – 12 January 1968) was an English cricketer: a right-handed batsman and right arm bowler who played three first-class games for Worcestershire, all in July 1939. He totalled 46 runs in his four innings, of which 42 came in a single effort, on his debut against Surrey. Prior to his brief first-class career, Blakey had also played in the Minor Counties Championship for the Lancashire Second XI in 1929 and 1930. He was born in St Anne's-on-Sea, Lancashire and died at Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ... a few days short of his 61st birthday. External links * Statistical summaryfrom CricketArchive 1907 births 1968 deaths English cricketers Worcestershire cricketers 20th-century Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George D
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Tulsa
This is a list of mayors of Tulsa, a city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Mayors of Tulsa are elected for four year terms. Mayors of Tulsa Notes See also * Timeline of Tulsa, Oklahoma References ;General Political Graveyard–Mayors of Tulsa, Oklahoma a website of Tulsa City Auditor Phil Wood (archived by WebCit here ;Specific External links {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Mayors Of Tulsa, Oklahoma |
John Blakey
John Blakey (born 24 July 1966) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 359 games in the Australian Football League. Football career Playing Recruited froDoncaster East Football Club Blakey debuted for the Fitzroy Football Club in 1985, and went on to be used in a variety of midfield positions. He went on to play 135 games (for 38 goals) with the Fitzroy Lions until 1992. He switched to the North Melbourne Football Club in 1993 and went on to be a stalwart for the club. He played in the 1996 and 1999 premiership sides and went on to play 224 games for 72 goals until he retired in 2002 at 36 years of age. His total of 359 games places him 14th on the list of most games in VFL/AFL football and has played the most games in the VFL/AFL without playing in a draw. He also played in a record seven consecutive preliminary finals for the Kangaroos (along with teammates Wayne Carey, David King, Mick Martyn, Corey McKernan & Craig Sholl) from 1994 to 2000. He represented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Blakey
Marion Clifton Blakey (born March 26, 1948) is an American businesswoman and former government official who served as president and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America. Prior to joining Rolls-Royce, she served as the eighth full-time chief executive of the Aerospace Industries Association, an American defense industry trade association from 2007 to 2015. Before this, she served a five-year term as the 15th Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. Blakey was the second woman to hold the position, serving as a successor to Jane Garvey, the first woman to hold the Administrator title. She was the second Administrator who was not a licensed pilot. She was awarded the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy in 2013. Early life and education Blakey was born in Gadsden, Alabama. She received her bachelor's degree with honors in international studies from Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia in 1970. She also attended the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Blakey (other)
Michael Blakey may refer to: * Michael Blakey (anthropologist) (born 1953), American professor at the College of William & Mary * Michael Robert Blakey (born 1975), British business angel and venture capitalist {{hndis, Blakey, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Blakey
Nicholas Blakey (died 20 November 1758) was an Irish-born draughtsman and engraver. He produced book illustrations, and designed early examples of scenes from English history. Life Blakey's early life is not known; born in Ireland, he is known to be studying in Paris in 1747. He developed a late rococo style. He was a designer and sometimes engraver of book illustrations, collaborating with others including Louis Peter Boitard, Charles Grignion the Elder and Simon François Ravenet. His earliest published designs appear in Bernhard Siegfried Albinus's ''Tables of the Skeleton and Muscles of the Human Body'' (1749). Working with the painter Francis Hayman, he designed and engraved plates for an edition of Alexander Pope's works (1751), and for Jonas Hanway's ''An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea'' (1753). Also with Francis Hayman he contributed to a set of prints, published as ''English History Delineated'' (1750–52); these were commissioned in 175 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
