Ballads & Blues (Tommy Flanagan album)

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| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}

| rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

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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".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000197535 |title=Ballads & Blues – Review |access-date=August 8, 2016}}

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

• Tommy Flanagan – piano
• George Mraz – bass

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