Nights of Ballads & Blues is the third album by the jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, released on the Impulse! label in 1963. It features performances by Tyner with Steve Davis on bass and Lex Humphries on drums.

The jazz critic Harvey Pekar said in his August 29, 1963, review for DownBeat, "Tyner's playing has many virtues, but one in particular is his tastefulness. There is nothing trivial about his music; he is, to quote an often used phrase, a 'musician's musician.'"

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Spiritsville is the second album led by American jazz trombonist Julian Priester which was recorded in 1960 for Riverside's subsidiary Jazzland label.

François van de Linde of Flophouse Magazine stated that Spiritsville has "no lack" of swing, and called it "a fine album that boasts the challenging tune 'Excursion' and a great ballad reading by Priester of 'It Might As Well Be Spring'." - Wikipedia

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A Jazz Message Review by Scott Yanow

Drummer Art Blakey took time off from his busy schedule as leader of The Jazz Messengers to participate in this quartet session with saxophonist Sonny Stitt, pianist McCoy Tyner and bassist Art Davis. Although this session was under Blakey's leadership, Stitt (on both tenor and alto) emerges as the main soloist, playing his trademark bebop lines with creativity and typical enthusiasm.

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