{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = A Ballad Album | type = Album | artist = [[Warne Marsh]] Quartet featuring [[Lou Levy (pianist)|Lou Levy]] | cover = A Ballad Album.jpg | alt = | released = 1984 | recorded = April 7, 1983 | venue = | studio = Studio 44, Monster, Holland | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = 65:04 | label = [[Criss Cross Jazz]]<br /><small>1007</small> | producer = Gerry Teekens | chronology = [[Warne Marsh]] | prev_title = [[Warne Marsh Meets Gary Foster]] | prev_year = 1982 | next_title = [[Posthumous (album)|Posthumous]] | next_year = 1985 }}
'''''A Ballad Album''''', is an album by saxophonist [[Warne Marsh]], recorded in 1983 and released on the Dutch [[Criss Cross Jazz]] label.<ref name="Criss Cross Records discography">{{cite web |url=https://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1007.html |title=Criss Cross Jazz Records discography |access-date=May 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Godwin |first=M |url=http://www.warnemarsh.info/discography_2.htm |title=Discography of Warne Marion Marsh |access-date=May 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/warne-marsh-discography/ |title=Enciclopedia del Jazz: Warne Marsh |date=29 May 2015 |access-date=May 16, 2017}}</ref>
== Reception == {{Music ratings | rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin Guide">{{cite book|last = Cook|first = Richard|author-link = Richard Cook (journalist)|author2=Brian Morton |author-link2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette|edition = 2nd|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 1994|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 0-14-017949-6|pages = 881–2}}</ref> | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Scott|last=Yanow|class=album |id= mw0000269850 |title=''A Ballad Album'' – Review |accessdate=May 16, 2017}}</ref> }} The [[AllMusic]] review states: {{Blockquote|text=Although there is a certain amount of tempo variation, this is largely a ballad showcase CD for tenor saxophonist Warne Marsh... Fine music that is both relaxing and (thanks to Marsh) somewhat unsettling under the surface.|source={{AllMusic|first=Scott|last=Yanow|class=album |id= mw0000269850 |title=''A Ballad Album'' – Review |accessdate=May 16, 2017}}}}
== Track listing == # "[[I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby]]" ([[Jimmy McHugh]], [[Dorothy Fields]]) – 5:42 # "[[The Nearness of You]]" ([[Hoagy Carmichael]], [[Ned Washington]]) – 7:57 # "[[How Deep Is the Ocean?]]" ([[Irving Berlin]]) – 5:49 # "[[Spring Is Here]]" ([[Richard Rodgers]], [[Lorenz Hart]]) – 5:10 # "[[How High the Moon]]" ([[Morgan Lewis (songwriter)|Morgan Lewis]], [[Nancy Hamilton]]) – 7:16 # "[[Time on My Hands (song)|Time on My Hands]]" ([[Vincent Youmans]], [[Harold Adamson]], [[Mack Gordon]]) – 4:36 # "[[Emily (1964 song)|Emily]]" ([[Johnny Mandel]], [[Johnny Mercer]]) – 5:03 # "[[My Romance (song)|My Romance]]" (Rogers, Hart) – 5:40 # "How Deep Is the Ocean?" [take 3] (Berlin) – 5:39 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small> # "Time on My Hands" [take 1] (Youmans, Adamson, Gordon) – 5:11 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small> # "The Nearness of You" [take 1] (Carmichael, Washington) – 7:30 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>
== Personnel == *[[Warne Marsh]] – [[tenor saxophone]] *[[Lou Levy (pianist)|Lou Levy]] – [[piano]] *[[Jesper Lundgaard]] – [[double bass|bass]] *James Martin – [[drum kit|drums]]
== References == {{reflist}} {{Warne Marsh}}
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