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First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings, Art & Jazz Messengers Blakey, LP Milestone Films Those were the exact wordsArt Blakey & The Jazz Messengers "First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings" A previously unreleased live recording of drum legend Art Blakey with a classic line up of the Jazz Messengers, trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt. It was captured on January 14, 1961, at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo during the band's first ever tour of Japan. Co produced by Zev Feldman and David Weiss,