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

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

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 as indicated

  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. "Birk's 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. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Ballads & Blues – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 8, 2016.
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