Carl Allen’s Messengers of Jazz - A Tribute to Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers
Thursday, October 22, 2026
7:00 PM
Dizzy's Club
Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY 10019
$24
Scheduled
About This Event
Drummer-bandleader Carl Allen brings his Messengers of Jazz to Dizzy’s Club, continuing the lineage of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. His working ensemble features a frontline of developing soloists, tight arrangements and a driving rhythm section that treats the Messengers’ book as living material rather than a period re-creation, favoring swing discipline over display.
About A Tribute to Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers
At Dizzy’s Club in New York City, drummer and bandleader Carl Allen leads Carl Allen’s Messengers of Jazz in a tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Blakey’s group functioned for decades as a working band and a proving ground, shaping generations of modern jazz musicians and, by extension, the city’s club culture. Allen’s lineup draws on that repertoire and those bandstand rules: time, swing, and collective responsibility. The result is less reenactment than an argument for how jazz history stays alive through steady work.
About the Artists
Carl Allen’s Messengers of Jazz - A Tribute to Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers
Carl Allen’s Messengers of Jazz is drummer-bandleader Carl Allen’s working tribute to Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, a group that shaped hard bop through decades of rotating personnel. At Dizzy’s Club in New York City, Allen leads a lineup built on Blakey’s model: a frontline of strong soloists, tight arrangements, and a rhythm section that keeps the music in forward motion.
Carl Allen
Carl Allen is an American jazz drummer and bandleader, known for his contributions to the jazz genre and collaborations with various artists.
Messengers of Jazz
Messengers of Jazz is a working ensemble led by drummer and bandleader Carl Allen, formed in the lineage of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. In New York City, the group appears at Dizzy’s Club with a repertory that treats the Messengers’ book as living material rather than period re-creation.
The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers emerged in the early 1950s as a rotating jazz combo and remained a working institution for decades under drummer Art Blakey’s leadership. The band’s identity was built around a frontline of developing soloists, disciplined arrangements, and a hard-driving rhythm section rooted in hard bop, bebop, and related modern styles.