The Art of the Ballad

Tracklist

• 1
  Ruby, My Dear
  5:26
• 2
  Tea for Two
  5:53
• 3
  'Round Midnight
  6:41
• 4
  Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
  4:31
• 5
  I Surrender, Dear
  5:26
• 6
  Crepuscule With Nellie (take 6)
  4:38
• 7
  Mood Indigo
  3:14
• 8
  Pannonica
  3:51
• 9
  Monk's Mood
  7:51
• 10
  Sweet and Lovely
  7:17
• 11
  I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
  5:42
• 12
  April in Paris
  3:53
• 13
  Ruby, My Dear
  6:18

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Release credits

• Art Blakey
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 4, 6]
• Coleman Hawkins
  tenor saxophone [1, 6]
• Curley Russell
  double bass [4]
• Frank Foster
  tenor saxophone [4]
• Gerry Mulligan
  baritone saxophone [10]
• Gigi Gryce
  alto saxophone [6]
• Jack Higgins
  recording [3, 5, 9-10, 12-13]
• John Coltrane
  tenor saxophone [6, 9, 13]
• Kenny Clarke
  drums (drum set) [7, 11]
• Orrin Keepnews
  producer [2-3, 5, 8-10, 12-13]
• Oscar Pettiford
  double bass [2, 7, 11]
• Ray Copeland
  trumpet [4, 6]
• Ray Fowler
  engineer [10]
• Reice Hamel
  recording [8]
• Shadow Wilson
  drums (drum set) [10, 13]
• Thelonious Monk
  piano
• Wilbur Ware
  bass [10], double bass [1, 6, 9, 13]
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Issues

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  The Art of the Ballad

  CD
  1998