Blue Ballads
1996 studio album by Archie Shepp
Blue Ballads Released March 1996 Recorded 24–25 November, 1995 Studio Clinton Studio "A", New York City Genre Jazz Label Venus TKCV-79307
The Rising Sun Collection Blue Ballads True Ballads
Blue Ballads Archie Shepp and his quartet which was recorded in New York City in 1995 and released on the Venus label.[ 1]
Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [ 2]
The AllMusic review by arwulf arwulf called it and its counterparts Black Ballads , and True Ballads "intimate studies in shared introspection...[that] document Shepp's astute exploration of the ballad form during the 1990s...Once again and in all the best ways, Shepp shines in parallel with his contemporary Pharoah Sanders. Both are skilled balladeers as well as free spirits who simply cannot be bottled or pigeonholed".[ 2]
Track listing
"Little Girl Blue " (Richard Rodgers , Lorenz Hart ) – 6:03
"More Than You Know " (Billy Rose , Edward Eliscu , Vincent Youmans ) – 7:18
"Blue in Green " (Bill Evans , Miles Davis ) – 7:58
"Blue and Sentimental " (Count Basie ) – 5:12
"Cry Me a River " (Arthur Hamilton ) – 7:54
"If I Should Lose You " (Leo Robin , Ralph Rainger ) – 7:32
"Alone Together " (Arthur Schwartz , Howard Dietz ) – 10:51
Personnel
Musicians
Production
References
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,
Leader
Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet The House I Live In Lars Gullin , 1963)Four for Trane Fire Music On This Night New Thing at Newport John Coltrane , 1965)Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco Mama Too Tight The Magic of Ju-Ju For Losers Kwanza The Way Ahead Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones Black Gipsy Blasé Live at the Pan-African Festival Pitchin Can Poem for Malcolm Yasmina, a Black Woman Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble Coral Rock Doodlin' Things Have Got to Change Attica Blues The Cry of My People A Sea of Faces Bijou Body and Soul Horo , 1975)Jazz a Confronto 27 Mariamar Montreux One Montreux Two There's a Trumpet in My Soul Hi-Fly Karin Krog , 1976)Steam Goin' Home Horace Parlan , 1977)On Green Dolphin Street Duet Dollar Brand , 1978)Lady Bird Looking at Bird Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , 1980)Trouble in Mind Mama Rose Jasper van 't Hof , 1982)Soul Song Down Home New York California Meeting: Live on Broadway Little Red Moon Duo Reunion Horace Parlan , 1987)Splashes Lover Man Body and Soul Richard Davis , Enja , 1989)Blue Ballads New York WithCecil With
