Music Review: Art Blakey and the Giants of Jazz - Live at the 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival (Blogcritics.org)

5 August 2008, 3:31 pm

Art Blakey and the Giants of Jazz exemplify the term "supergroup" in their incredible 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival performance. Music critics and fans use the term “supergroup” to label bands formed by artists already famous in their own right. The word originated to describe rock bands such as Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Cream, Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young, the Traveling Wilburys, and the more ...... read more

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