Released 1978 Length 59:07 | Recorded November 15, 1978 Label Enja3031 Release date 1978 | |
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Studio Penthouse Studio, New York City Producer Horst Weber and Matthias Winckelmann Similar Tommy Flanagan albums, Jazz albums | ||
Ballads & Blues is an album by pianist Tommy Flanagan with bassist George Mraz recorded in 1978 for the Enja label.
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Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars, stating: "The intimate and mostly lightly swinging music is fine, but one does miss the momentum that would have been provided by a drummer".
Track listing
All compositions by Tommy Flanagan except where noted.
- "Blue Twenty" - 5:59
- "Scrapple from the Apple" (Charlie Parker) - 4:32
- "With Malice Towards None" (Tom McIntosh) - 8:58
- "Blues for Sarka" (George Mraz) - 6:17
- "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 6:32
- "They Say It's Spring" (Bob Haymes, Marty Clark) - 5:28
- "Birk's Works" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 5:56
- "Fifty-Twenty One" (Thad Jones) - 6:34 Bonus track on CD
- "Toward None" - 8:51 Bonus track on CD
Personnel
References
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