Ballads & Blues (Tommy Flanagan album)

Ballads & Blues is an album by pianist Tommy Flanagan with bassist George Mraz recorded in 1978 for the Enja label.

Reception
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".

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