| A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers | |
| Type: | Live |
| Artist: | Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers |
| Cover: | A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers.jpg |
| Released: | 1957 |
| Recorded: | March 8–9, 1957 |
| Venue: | Carl Fischer Concert Hall, New York City |
| Genre: | Hard bop |
| Length: | 36:46 |
| Label: | Elektra EKL 120 (Mono) EKS 7120 (Stereo) |
| Producer: | Jac Holzman |
| Chronology: | Art Blakey |
| Prev Title: | Orgy in Rhythm |
| Prev Year: | 1957 |
| Next Title: | Selections from Lerner and Loewe's... |
| Next Year: | 1957 |
A Midnight Session with the Jazz Messengers is a live album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers originally released on the Elektra label in 1957.[1] [2] [3] [4] The album masters were sold to Savoy and re-released as Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1960 and Mirage in 1977.[5]
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow stated, "Already at this early stage, the band was the epitome of hard bop and just beginning to become an influential force. ... the music is consistently excellent and typically hard swinging".