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, 1977
Sound 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
- "Jodi" - 10:15
- "Cami" - 6:55
- "Miwako" (Art Blakey, Bob Mintzer) - 4:27
- "Gypsy Folk Tales" - 7:36
- "Time Will Tell" (Bobby Watson) - 6:58
- "Ronnie's a Dynamite Lady" - 7:54
- "Hawkman" (Watson) - 10:30
- "Malibu" (Blakey, Mintzer) - 4:42
Personnel
Songs
1Jodi10:15
2Cami6:55
3Miwako4:27
References
Gypsy Folk Tales Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA