50K views · 685 reactions | Beloved former Minnesota State Fair Police Chief Art Blakey has passed away. He led the state fair police department for 37 years before retiring last year. We're looking back at this story we did his last summer at the fair. https://kare11.tv/2vhzMzF | KARE 11 | Facebook

A new all-analog 180g Classic Vinyl Edition of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "The Big Beat" is out now! https://bluenote.lnk.to/ArtBlakey-TheBigBeat Blakey’s 1960 hard bop classic introduced one of the greatest line-ups of The Jazz Messengers with the legendary drummer joined by trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Bobby Timmons & bassist Jymie Merritt. Three of the six tunes here were composed by Shorter including “Lester Left Town,” but the album is best-known for