The dynamic drummer and longtime Jazz Messengers leader brought his full power to others' sessions. Blakey's at his bebop best ripping through "Cherokee" with trumpeter Clifford Brown. He brings his polyrhythmic panache to trumpeter Kenny Dorham's Afro-Cuban "Afrodisia" and persistently pushes saxophonist Wayne Shorter in "Ruby and the Pearl," from the young Jazz Messenger's early solo outing.