Ballads & Blues (Tommy Flanagan album)

Ballads & Blues is an album by pianist Tommy Flanagan with bassist George Mraz recorded in 1978 for the Enja label.[1][2]

Ballads & Blues
Studio album by
Tommy Flanagan
Released1978
RecordedNovember 15, 1978
StudioPenthouse Studio, New York City
GenreJazz
Length59:07
LabelEnja
3031
ProducerHorst Weber and Matthias Winckelmann
Tommy Flanagan chronology
Confirmation
(1978)		 Ballads & Blues
(1978)		 The Super Jazz Trio
(1978)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]

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".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Tommy Flanagan except where noted.

  1. "Blue Twenty" – 5:59
  2. "Scrapple from the Apple" (Charlie Parker) – 4:32
  3. "With Malice Towards None" (Tom McIntosh) – 8:58
  4. "Blues for Sarka" (George Mraz) – 6:17
  5. "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 6:32
  6. "They Say It's Spring" (Bob Haymes, Marty Clark) – 5:28
  7. "Birks' Works" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 5:56
  8. "Fifty-Twenty One" (Thad Jones) – 6:34 Bonus track on CD
  9. "Toward None" – 8:51 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

References
  1. Tommy Flanagan Catalog accessed August 8, 2016
  2. Enja Records album entry, accessed August 8, 2016
  3. Yanow, Scott. Ballads & Blues – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (1st ed.). Penguin. p. 379. ISBN 978-0-14-015364-4.
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