| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers |
| Cover: | Blakey Impulse! cover.jpg |
| Released: | September 1, 1961 |
| Recorded: | June 13 and 14, 1961 |
| Studio: | Van Gelder (Englewood Cliffs) |
| Genre: | Hard bop |
| Length: | 38:00 |
| Label: | Impulse! |
| Producer: | Bob Thiele |
| Prev Title: | A Night in Tunisia |
| Prev Year: | 1961 |
| Next Title: | Mosaic |
| Next Year: | 1961 |
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (stylized as Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! and titled Alamode in Japan) is a studio album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, released on September 1, 1961, through Impulse! Records. Expanding to a sextet for the first time, it was the group's final recording with Bobby Timmons, who would be replaced by Cedar Walton.
In his DownBeat review of January 4, 1962, critic Ira Gitler commented: "This is a change of pace from most recent Messenger releases. There is only one original; the rest are standards that have not been overdone." AllMusic reviewer Steven McDonald described it as: "An absolutely wonderful 1961 set from Blakey and company, who demonstrate here how to be note-perfect without leeching away the emotion of a performance."