Tommy Flanagan - Ballads & Blues (1979)

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Artist: Tommy Flanagan
Title: Ballads & Blues
Year Of Release: 1979
Label: Enja Records[CD 3031-2]
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop
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Total Time: 43:43
Total Size: 190 MB(+3%) | 104 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01 - Blue Twenty
02 - Scrapple from the Apple
03 - With Malice Towars None
04 - Blues for Sarka
05 - Star Eyes
06 - Thay Say It's Spring
07 - Birk's Works

personnel :

Tommy Flanagan - piano
George Mraz - bass

For the CD reissue of this session, two selections were added to the original seven-song LP release. Pianist Tommy Flanagan and bassist George Mraz do not really stick to the plot of the title, playing a few bop standards that are neither blues nor ballads (such as "Scrapple from the Apple," "Star Eyes" and "How High the Moon"), in addition to some blues and ballads (most notably Tom McIntosh's haunting "With Malice Toward None"). The intimate and mostly lightly swinging music is fine, but one does miss the momentum that would have been provided by a drummer.

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