Alone with the Blues (Ray Bryant album)

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Alone with the Blues
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Studio album by
Ray Bryant
ReleasedEnd of May/early June 1959 [1]
RecordedDecember 19, 1958
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length37:49
Label New Jazz
NJLP 8213
Producer Esmond Edwards
Ray Bryant chronology
Ray Bryant Trio
(1957)		Alone with the Blues
(1959)		 Ray Bryant Plays
(1959)

Alone with the Blues is a solo album recorded by American jazz pianist Ray Bryant in 1958 for the New Jazz label. [2] [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Scott Yanow, in his review for AllMusic states, "Ray Bryant's first solo piano album is rightfully considered a classic. Bryant, at the time thought of as a young modern traditionalist, has always felt perfectly at home playing the blues... highly recommended". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Ray Bryant except where noted.

  1. "Blues No. 3" – 7:15
  2. "Joy (Blues No. 2)" – 3:59
  3. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) – 3:52
  4. "Me and the Blues (Blues No. 1)" – 5:00
  5. "My Blues (Blues No. 5)" – 7:40
  6. "Rockin' Chair" (Hoagy Carmichael) – 5:16
  7. "Stocking Feet" – 4:47

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Billboard, Jun 15, 1959
  2. ↑ New Jazz Records discography accessed May 15, 2014
  3. ↑ Enciclopedia del Jazz Ray Bryant discography, accessed April 26, 2017
  4. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed May 15, 2014
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 194. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
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