Blakey

[ bley-kee ]

noun

1. Art Abdullah Ibn Buhaina, 1919–90, U.S. jazz drummer.

Blakey

/ ˈbleɪkɪ /

noun

1. BlakeyArt19191990MUSMUSIC: jazz drummerMUSIC: bandleader Art , full name Arthur Blakey . (1919–90), US Black jazz drummer and leader of the Jazz Messengers band

Example Sentences

As the science developed, Blakey’s group also used a technique called strontium isotope analysis to learn more about where people had come from.

From MIT Technology Review

Art Blakey lived there, too, and he got us into the building.

From The Daily Beast

He performed with giants—Gerry Mulligan, Art Blakey, Mark Murphy—but his one solo CD, A Good Thing, barely caused a ripple.

From The Daily Beast

Orrin Blakey stood at the door of his lumber yard surveying me with curious eyes but I passed him in silence.

From Project Gutenberg

Then with an effect of recollecting: “No, come to think of it,” he added, “Blakey gave it to me.”

From Project Gutenberg

I found that Blakey had not come home, but he returned in a day or two, and said he had looked all over London for me.

From Project Gutenberg

This the guard managed all right, poor Blakey being taken 200 miles further from home.

From Project Gutenberg