{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Blue Stroll | type = studio | artist = Ira Sullivan | cover = Blue_stroll_cover.jpeg | alt = | released = 1961 | recorded = July 26, 1959 | venue = | studio = Richard Cunliffe Studio, Chicago | genre = Jazz | length = {{ubl|38:21 (LP)|53:58 (CD)}} | label = Delmark | producer = Robert G. Koester | chronology = Ira Sullivan | prev_title = Nicky's Tune | prev_year = 1958 | next_title = Bird Lives! | next_year = 1962 | misc = {{Extra album cover | header = reissue cover | type = studio | cover = Blue_stroll_reissue_cover.jpeg | border = | alt = | caption = }} }}
'''''Blue Stroll''''' is an album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan, which was recorded in 1959 and released on Delmark. He leads a quintet with saxophonist Johnny Griffin, pianist Jodie Christian, bassist Victor Sproles and drummer Wilbur Campbell.<ref name="Disco">[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Sullivan/is-disc.htm Ira Sullivan Discography]</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz | rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin Guide"/> }} In his review for AllMusic, Alex Henderson states "Many of Chicago's bop musicians have lamented Sullivan's decision to move to Florida and wish he had never left Chi-Town; listening to the rewarding ''Blue Stroll'', it isn't hard to understand why they feel that way."<ref name="Allmusic">{{allMusic|last=Henderson|first=Alex|class=album|id=mw0000269751|title=Ira Sullivan – ''Blue Stroll'': Review|accessdate=March 27, 2017}}</ref>
''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' notes about Griffin "who barges and blusters his way through his solos, tossing out tags and quotes as if to remind the others what else was going on in the world."<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|edition = 6th|series = The Penguin Guide to Jazz|year = 2002|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-14-051521-3|pages = 1393}}</ref>
==Track listing== # "Wilbur's Tune" (Wilbur Campbell) – 6:03 # "My Old Flame" (Arthur Johnston, Sam Coslow) – 6:40 # "Blue Stroll" (Jodie Christian) – 5:52 # "63rd Street Theme" (Johnny Griffin) – 7:24 <small>Bonus track on CD</small> # "Bluzinbee" – 19:46 # "Wilbur's Tune, Alternate" (Wilbur Campbell) – 8:13 <small>Bonus track on CD</small>
==Personnel== *Ira Sullivan – trumpet, baritone sax, peck horn, alto sax *Johnny Griffin – alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax *Jodie Christian – piano *Victor Sproles – bass *Wilbur Campbell – drums
==References== {{reflist}} {{Ira Sullivan}} {{Authority control}}
Category:1961 albums Category:Ira Sullivan albums Category:Delmark Records albums