{"id":87850,"date":"2021-09-21T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/art-blakey-first-flight-to-tokyo\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:38:15","slug":"art-blakey-first-flight-to-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/art-blakey-first-flight-to-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Note Records unearths unreleased recording of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The legendary jazz label is releasing First Flight to Tokyo <\/em>for the first time, a live recording of the legendary group drummer captured at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo on January 14, 1961.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings<\/em> was captured during Art Blakey<\/a> and his band\u2019s first tour of Japan. The Jazz Messengers were among the first modern jazz groups to tour the country and Japanese audiences were able to experience one of their all-time great line-ups, featuring the legendary drummer alongside Lee Morgan on trumpet, Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone, Bobby Timmons on piano and Jymie Merritt on bass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concert featured soaring performances of well-known jazz standards including Charlie Parker\u2019s \u201cNow\u2019s the Time,\u201d Thelonious Monk\u2019s \u201c\u2019Round About Midnight,\u201d and Jazz Messenger hits including \u201cBlues March,\u201d \u201cDat Dere,\u201d and \u201cMoanin\u2019,\u201d available below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe performances were captured at the end of a tour that resulted after Blakey was crowned in a Japanese magazine poll as the American musician that the country\u2019s jazz fans were most eager to experience in person<\/em>,\u201d writes jazz critic Bob Blumenthal in the liner notes. \u201cOver the first two weeks of January 1961 the Messengers performed in several major Japanese cities and were received as artistic heroes wherever they appeared<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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