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Gypsy Folk Tales

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Released
  
1977

Artist
  
The Jazz Messengers

Label
  
Roulette Records

Producer
  
Fred Bailin

Release date
  
1977

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
February 14-17 & 28 and March 1, 1977Sound Ideas Studio A, New York City

Gypsy Folk Tales(1977)
  
In My Prime Vol. 1(1977)

Similar
  
The Jazz Messengers albums, Jazz albums

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Gypsy Folk Tales is an album by drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded in 1977 and released on the Roulette label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 2½ stars stating "This Roulette LP includes six fairly recent originals in addition to a pair of numbers co-written by drummer Art Blakey with saxophonist Bob Mintzer. Davis's "Gypsy Folk Tales" and "Jodi" are the best-known songs and the hard-bop oriented solos are consistently fresh".

Track listing

All compositions by Walter Davis, Jr. except as indicated

  1. "Jodi" - 10:15
  2. "Cami" - 6:55
  3. "Miwako" (Art Blakey, Bob Mintzer) - 4:27
  4. "Gypsy Folk Tales" - 7:36
  5. "Time Will Tell" (Bobby Watson) - 6:58
  6. "Ronnie's a Dynamite Lady" - 7:54
  7. "Hawkman" (Watson) - 10:30
  8. "Malibu" (Blakey, Mintzer) - 4:42

Personnel

  • Art Blakey - drums
  • Valery Ponomarev - trumpet
  • Bobby Watson - alto saxophone
  • David Schnitter - tenor saxophone
  • Walter Davis, Jr. - piano
  • Dennis Irwin - bass

    • Songs

    1Jodi10:15
    2Cami6:55
    3Miwako4:27

    References

    Gypsy Folk Tales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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