| A Different Kind of Blues | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Itzhak Perlman and André Previn |
| Cover: | A Different Kind of Blues.jpg |
| Released: | 14 October 1980 |
| Venue: | Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh |
| Genre: | Jazz, Jazz fusion |
| Length: | 36:31 |
| Label: | Angel – DS-37780[1] |
| Chronology: | Itzhak Perlman |
| Prev Title: | Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman Play Music for Two Violins |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | Itzhak Perlman Plays Fritz Kreisler Volume 3 |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
A Different Kind of Blues is a 1980 album by Itzhak Perlman and André Previn. It contains compositions by Previn.
The album was reviewed by Richard S. Ginnel at Allmusic who wrote of Previn and Perlman that "the two classical partners actually made a really charming album the first time around" and compared Previn to "...the proverbial bicyclist who took a long sabbatical but never forgot how to ride", writing that he "still had plenty of keyboard invention in his fingers, and his tunes are consistently witty" and Perlman as "...not quite swinging but creating an alluring illusion of jazz feeling". Ginnel credits the album with anticipating "the rash of 'crossover' albums by classical artists that didn't take hold until late in the 1980s. And it remains more enjoyable than the vast majority of its successors".