Gypsy Folk Tales is an album by drummer Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded in 1977 and released on the Roulette label.Art Blakey discography accessed June 18, 2013Art Blakey chronology accessed June 18, 2013
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 2½ stars stating "This Roulette LP includes six fairly recent originals in addition to a pair of numbers co-written by drummer Art Blakey with saxophonist Bob Mintzer. Davis's "Gypsy Folk Tales" and "Jodi" are the best-known songs and the hard-bop oriented solos are consistently fresh".Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed June 18, 2013
Track listing All compositions by Walter Davis, Jr. except as indicated "Jodi" - 10:15 "Cami" - 6:55 "Miwako" (Art Blakey, Bob Mintzer) - 4:27 "Gypsy Folk Tales" - 7:36 "Time Will Tell" (Bobby Watson) - 6:58 "Ronnie's a Dynamite Lady" - 7:54 "Hawkman" (Watson) - 10:30 "Malibu" (Blakey, Mintzer) - 4:42
Personnel Art Blakey - drums Valery Ponomarev - trumpet Bobby Watson - alto saxophone David Schnitter - tenor saxophone Walter Davis, Jr. - piano Dennis Irwin - bass
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