Blues in Time

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{{Infobox album

| name = Blues in Time

| type = studio

| artist = Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond

| cover = BluesinTime.jpg

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| released = Late November/early December 1957{{Cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3x0EAAAAMBAJ&q=Desmond+8246&pg=PA26 |title=Review Spotlight on... |magazine=Billboard |date=December 2, 1957 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |page=26 |via=Google Books}}

| recorded = August 2, 27, 1957

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| studio = {{hlist|Capitol (Hollywood)|Fine Sound (New York City)}}

| genre = Jazz

| length = 45:48

| label = Verve
MGV 8246

| producer = Norman Granz

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| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = Alternative cover

| type = studio

| cover = BluesinTime2.JPG

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| caption = Verve V 8478 edition

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{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r155601|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

| rev2 = Disc

| rev2score = {{rating|5|5}}{{cite magazine |title=The New Reviews |last=Hall |first=Tony |author-link=Tony Hall (music executive) |magazine=Disc |date=26 July 1958 |issue=25 |pages=18–19}}

| rev3 = DownBeat

| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Feather|first=Leonard|date=9 January 1958|title=Review of Gerry Mulligan-Paul Desmond Quartet|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/DownBeat/IDX/50s/Down-Beat-1958-01-09-25-1-IDX-29.pdf|magazine=DownBeat|access-date=5 December 2023}}

| rev4 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

| rev5 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

| rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1053}}

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Gerry Mulligan - Paul Desmond Quartet (later retitled Blues in Time) is a jazz album by Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan released in 1957 on the Verve label.[http://www.gerrymulligan.com/wp-content/uploads/GMD-2011.pdf Gerry Mulligan Discography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422151434/http://www.gerrymulligan.com/wp-content/uploads/GMD-2011.pdf |date=2012-04-22 }} accessed February 23, 2016{{Cite web|url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/gerry-mulligan-and-the-paul-desmond-quartet-blues-in-time/|title=Gerry Mulligan and the Paul Desmond Quartet: Blues in Time|first=Neil|last=Tesser|website=JazzTimes}} The idea for this album was born in 1954, then postponed till summer of 1957 when Desmond suggested to record some pieces together. Producer Norman Granz managed to set up the recording date for the first session in August.Original liner notes by Nat Hentoff Blues in Time was also reissued on Verve V 8478 with a different cover (see below). The album is the first of two albums Mulligan and Desmond recorded in a pianoless quartet setting. The second, recorded in 1962, was Two of a Mind.