 and when Silver left to start his own band, Blakey kept the Jazz Messengers name. In 1959, tenor Benny Golson joined the quintet, and soon after was joined by what became one of the best-known lineups of the Jazz Messengers, tenor Wayne Shorter, trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Bobby Timmons, and Jimmy Merritt. The songs written during that period became trademarks for the band,