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Blues Bag

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Blues Bag
Studio album by
Released1965
RecordedDecember 1 & 3, 1964
StudioUnited Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA
GenreJazz
Length37:23
LabelVee-Jay
VJLP 2506
ProducerLeonard Feather
Buddy DeFranco chronology
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Blues Bag, subtitled Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia Of Jazz - Jazz Of The '60s, Vol. 2, is an album by clarinetist Buddy DeFranco recorded in Los Angeles in late 1964 and released by the Vee-Jay label the following year.[1][2]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
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AllMusic[3]

AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow stated "The seven selections are all bluish with many of them actually being blues. ... This is intriguing music which makes one wish that Buddy DeFranco still played bass clarinet now and then".[3]

Track listing

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  1. "Blues Bag" (Buddy DeFranco) – 5:30
  2. "Rain Dance" (Victor Feldman) – 5:37
  3. "Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) – 3:44
  4. "Cousin Mary" (John Coltrane) – 4:40
  5. "Blues Connotation" (Ornette Coleman) – 3:44
  6. "Kush" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 7:48
  7. "Twelve Tone Blues" (Leonard Feather) – 6:20

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Jazzdisco: Buddy DeFranco Catalog, accessed August 2, 2019
  2. ^ Callahan, M. & Edwards, D. Both Sides Now: Vee-Jay Album Discography, Part 3: Jazz Series (1959-1978), accessed August 2, 2019
  3. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Buddy DeFranco: Blues Bag – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 2, 2019.