A Tribute to Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers New York Performances

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.