Blues Bag Explained

Blues Bag
Type:	album
Artist:	Buddy DeFranco
Cover:	Blues Bag.jpg
Released:	1965
Recorded:	December 1 & 3, 1964
Studio:	United Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	37:23
Label:	Vee-Jay VJLP 2506
Producer:	Leonard Feather
Prev Title:	The Girl from Ipanema
Prev Year:	1964
Next Title:	The Glenn Miller Orchestra Returns to Glen Island Casino
Next Year:	1967

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

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".

Track listing

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

• • Buddy DeFranco – clarinet, bass clarinet Freddy Hill (track 5), Lee Morgan (tracks 2 & 7) – trumpet
• Curtis Fuller – trombone (tracks 2, 5 & 7)
• Victor Feldman – piano, vibraphone
• Victor Sproles – bass
• Art Blakey – drums

Notes and References

1. https://www.jazzdisco.org/buddy-defranco/catalog/#vee-jay-vjlp-2506 Jazzdisco: Buddy DeFranco Catalog
2. Callahan, M. & Edwards, D. Both Sides Now: Vee-Jay Album Discography, Part 3: Jazz Series (1959-1978), accessed August 2, 2019