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n. (plural of ballad English)

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Ballads (Mary J. Blige album)

Ballads is a compilation album released on December 20, 2000 by American R&B singer Mary J. Blige. It was released exclusively in Japan, which includes previously unreleased track " Overjoyed", a cover of Stevie Wonder.

Ballads (John Coltrane album)

Ballads is a jazz album by John Coltrane. It was recorded in December 1961 and 1962, and released on the Impulse! label in 1963 as A-32 (mono) and later AS-32 (stereo). Critic Gene Lees stated that the quartet had never played the tunes before. "They arrived with music-store sheet music of the songs" and just before the recordings, they "would discuss each tune, write out copies of the changes they'd use, semi-rehearse for a half hour and then do it". Each piece was recorded in one take, except for "All or Nothing at All". In 2008, the album was a recipient of the Grammy Hall of Fame award.

Ballads (David Murray album)

Ballads is an album by David Murray released on the Japanese DIW label. It was released in 1988 and features six quartet performances by Murray with Fred Hopkins, Dave Burrell and Ralph Peterson Jr..

Ballads (Richard Marx album)

Ballads is the second compilation album by Richard Marx. This disc features ten of Marx's ballads including one live and one previously released non-single track.

Ballads (Harem Scarem album)

Ballads is a compilation album by the Canadian hard rock band Harem Scarem that was released in Japan in 1999. It features all the well known power ballads that the band had released on their past albums as well as two previously unreleased songs.

Ballads (Earl Klugh album)

Ballads is a compilation album by Earl Klugh released in 1993.

Ballads (Paul Bley album)

Ballads is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1967 and released on the ECM label in 1971.

Ballads (Ken Stubbs album)

Ballads is the first solo studio album recorded by the British jazz saxophonist Ken Stubbs, released in 2000 by UK jazz label, Cherryk Records. The album features Ken Stubbs as leader and arranger. He plays alto saxophone throughout the recording and also plays the rarely heard basset horn on one arrangement. The album also features Gary Husband on drums, Mick Hutton on bass, Phil Robson on guitar and Paul Edmonds on piano. It was recorded during 1999 in Ladbroke Grove, London.

Ballads (Liane Carroll album)

Ballads is a studio album by English jazz pianist/vocalist Liane Carroll. It was released in April 2013 by Quietmoney Recordings and distributed by Proper Records.

The album was recorded in Hastings, Sussex, England and produced by James McMillan. It features Mark Edwards (piano), Gwilym Simcock (piano), Julian Siegel ( bass clarinet) and Kirk Whalum ( tenor saxophone) with orchestration and big band arrangements by Chris Walden, and includes Sophie Bancroft's song "Calgary Bay", performed with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

The album received four-starred reviews in The Observer, The Guardian, the London Evening Standard and LondonJazz.

Usage examples of "ballads".

Robin is an idealized bandit, reiver, or Klepht, as in modern Romaic ballads, and his adventures are precisely such as popular fancy everywhere attaches to such popular heroes.

Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain.

Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson.

Courthope, that our traditional ballads are degraded popular survivals of literary poetry.

The plots and situations of some ballads are, indeed, the same as those of some literary mediaeval romances.

Peasant poets have been authors of ballads, without being, for all that, professional minstrels.

This incident is stereotyped in the ballads and occurs in an example in the Romaic.

He had lived to finish, it is said, the vast collection of all known traditional Scottish and English Ballads, with all accessible variants, a work of great labour and research, and a distinguished honour to American scholarship.

One of many ballads on fratricide, instigated by the mother: or inquired into by her, as the case may be.

Child, to have been a contemporary broadside of the ballad, which is an example of the evolution of popular ballads from the old traditional model.

All the ballads of fire-raising, a very usual practice, have points in common, and transference was easy.

Ancient ballads she sang that made the Goshawk sigh for home, and affected the Club with delirious love for the grand old water that was speeding them onward.

We used to learn by heart the ballads and songs upon famous events in those old days when poetry was worshipped.

To defend himself from admiring, he condemned the two women for the risk they ran to save a probably broken-legged little beast: and he escaped the melting mood by forcing a sneer at the sort of stuff out of which popular ballads are woven.

The Dame will have nought of an interview and colloquy not found mentioned in her collection of ballads, concerning a person quite secondary in Dr.