9 albums as leader and 28 as sideman (1954–2021), each listed chronologically.
Gigi Gryce Orchestra, The, Gigi Gryce Quartet, The
1956 · Signal (3)
Gil Evans And His Orchestra Featuring Cannonball Adderley
1958 · World Pacific Records
1954 · A Night at Birdland Vol.1
Moanin' (1958) first appeared under the plain eponymous title 'Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.' The opening tune, written by pianist Bobby Timmons, caught on so widely that the whole record came to be known by its name — the sideman's song, not the leader's, gave the album its title.
1958 · Moanin'
Recorded for Blue Note in October 1958, Moanin'
— Blue Note Records: The Biography, Richard Cook, 2003
1961 · Mosaic
Cedar Walton
— Art Blakey: Jazz Messenger, Leslie Gourse, 2002
1964 · Free for All
Reggie Workman
1981 · Album of the Year and 1 more
Wynton Marsalis joined Art Blakey's band as a teenager without having heard a single Blakey record — just playing scales over the chords, not yet knowing that a solo is something you construct, as he admitted at twenty-two. That was the starting point of the man later cast as jazz's traditionalist-in-chief.
— Statement stmt-wynton-marsalis-on-art-blakey
1982 · Keystone 3
Mulgrew Miller
— Blue Note Records: The Biography, Richard Cook, 2001
Lee Morgan
Wynton Marsalis
