Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 280 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you’ll find some familiar tunes and perhaps an introduction to something new.

Although this series is posted on Sundays, I want to acknowledge that Saturday was the birthday of jazz drummer Art Blakey, who was born on Oct. 11, 1919. I’ve paid tribute to jazz drummers collectively in the past, but It's long past time to give Black jazz drummers the respect they are due. I want to give Blakey his props today.

I’m posting several documentary features about Blakey of varying lengths which I hope you can set aside some time out to play.

“The Genius of Art Blakey” from Drumeo:

As the Drumeo video exp

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