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Prestige · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Blue Flames

Blue Flames cover
RecordedMar 31, 1964
LabelPrestige
CatalogPR 7338
Released1964
Personnel4 credited players
Discogsmaster 121589

The record

Recorded in '64 with then-husband Turrentine on tenor, this quartet leans hard on smoke and church, his horn twisting through her Hammond's slow-building swells. Cranshaw and Finch stay out of the way, content to let the two principals talk.

Session personnel

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 16 pressings on file.

1964Prestige · PR 7338 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1964Prestige · PRST 7338 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1964Prestige · PRST 7338 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1966Prestige · PR 7338 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1967Transatlantic Records · PR 7338 — Vinyl, LP, Album · laminated sleeve
1971Prestige · PRT 7338 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1972Prestige · PR 7338 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1988Original Jazz Classics
1995Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-328-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
1995Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-328-2 — CD, Album, Reissue
1997Prestige · VICJ-60041 — CD, Album, Remastered, Stereo
Prestige · PR 7338 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Bellaphon · BJS 40116 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Prestige · PR 7338 — Vinyl, LP, Album

Follow the players

Bob Cranshaw also plays on

Otis Finch also plays on

Shirley Scott also plays on

Stanley Turrentine also plays on