Ballads & Blues (Tommy Flanagan album)

Ballads & Blues
Studio album by Tommy Flanagan
Released	1978
Recorded	November 15, 1978
Studio	Penthouse Studio, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	59:07
Label	Enja 3031
Producer	Horst Weber and Matthias Winckelmann
Tommy Flanagan chronology
Confirmation (1978) Ballads & Blues (1978) The Super Jazz Trio (1978)

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
Source	Rating
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

• Tommy Flanagan – piano
• George Mraz – bass

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.