"[On a live performance] If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing."
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Musicians from PittsburghJazz musiciansAfrican AmericansDrummers from the United StatesMuslims from the United States
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Statement on the album At the Jazz Corner of the World (Blue Note, 1959).
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Art Blakey
Art Blakey (October 11 1919 – October 16 1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
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