| Africaine | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers |
| Cover: | Africaine by Art Blakey.jpg |
| Released: | 1981 |
| Recorded: | November 10, 1959 |
| Studio: | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 45:25 |
| Label: | Blue Note LT 1088 |
| Producer: | Alfred Lion |
| Prev Title: | Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 |
| Prev Year: | 1959 |
| Next Title: | Art Blakey et les Jazz Messengers au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées |
| Next Year: | 1959 |
Africaine is a collection of 1959 recordings by jazz artist Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. The collection was not released until over 20 years after it was recorded. The album features tenor-saxophonist Wayne Shorter in his first recording with The Jazz Messengers, trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Walter Davis, Jr. and bassist Jymie Merritt.[1]
Michael G. Nastos of Allmusic called it, "a recording that shows a band fully able to fuse many exotically attractive elements into a unified whole of creative jazz music ecstasy".