TheĚaĚtre des Champs ElyseĚes, Paris, France. This broadcast is the second part of a concert performed by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, recorded at the TheĚaĚtre des Champs ElyseĚes in Paris in December 1959. Co-founded in the early 1950s by American jazz drummer Art Blakey and pianist Horace Silver, this hard bop ensemble performed and recorded until Blakey died in 1990. Many jazz greats got their start in this band, including trumpeters Lee Morgan and Wynton Marsalis, saxophonists Benny Golson and Wayne Shorter, pianists Joanne Brackeen and Keith Jarrett.