Roots & Herbs

{{Infobox album

| name = Roots & Herbs

| type = Album

| artist = Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

| cover = Roots & Herbs.jpeg

| alt =

| released = October 1970[https://books.google.com/books?id=gSkEAAAAMBAJ&q=Roots+Herbs&pg=PA68 Billboard Oct 24, 1970]

| recorded = February 12, 1961 (#8–9)
February 18, 1961 (#1, 2, 4–6)
May 27, 1961 (#3, 7)

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

| genre = Jazz

| length = 42:11 (LP)
61:52 (CD)

| label = Blue Note
BST 84347

| producer = Alfred Lion

| prev_title = The Witch Doctor

| prev_year = 1969

| next_title = Child's Dance

| next_year = 1972

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r135531}}

| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| author-link =

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 25

}}

| rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2 = Brian Morton|author2-link = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|edition = 9th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0 | page = 133}}

}}

Roots & Herbs is a jazz album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, recorded in 1961 at the same sessions which produced The Freedom Rider, but not released on the Blue Note label until 1970. The CD reissue features three alternate takes, two of which originally released in 1979 on Pisces.