Jazz (Ry Cooder album)
| Jazz | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
dixieland, ragtime | ||||
| Length | 37:50 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. BSK 3197 | |||
| Producer | Joseph Byrd, Ry Cooder | |||
| Ry Cooder chronology | ||||
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Jazz is an album by the American musician and songwriter
Warner Bros. Records. The album was produced by Cooder and Joseph Byrd
and was Cooder's seventh.
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | C+[2] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [3] |
The Globe and Mail noted that "the record's worth, outside of the precise, calculated playing by a collection of jazz scholar-musicians, lies in the revelation of one or two little-known jazz figures, especially a Bahamian guitarist named Joseph Spence, whose up-tempo, syncopated treatment of religious hymns must have shocked the pious."[4]
Track listing
LP side A
- "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen) – 3:34
- "Face to Face That I Shall Meet Him" (Traditional; adapted by Joseph Spence) – 3:16
- "The Pearls / Tia Juana" (Jelly Roll Morton; adapted by Ry Cooder) – 4:18
- "The Dream" (Jack the Bear, Jess Pickett) – 5:03
- "Happy Meeting in Glory" (Traditional; adapted by Joseph Spence) – 3:13
LP side B
- "In a Mist" (Bix Beiderbecke) – 2:05
- "Flashes" (Bix Beiderbecke) – 2:17
- "Davenport Blues" (Bix Beiderbecke) – 2:01
- "Shine" (Cecil Mack, Ford Dabney) – 3:43
- "Nobody" (Bert Williams) – 5:07
- "We Shall Be Happy" (Traditional; adapted by Joseph Spence) – 3:13
Charts
| Year | Chart | Peak |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] | 68 |
Personnel
- Ry Cooder – guitar, Dobro, vocals, mandolin, tiple, harp[6]
- Mark Stevens – drums(A1, A2, A4, A5, B4, B6)
- Harvey Pittel – alto saxophone, clarinet (A1, B1, B3, B4)
- Tom Collier – marimba, vibraphone (A4, B1, B3, B4)
- George Bohanon – baritone horn (A2, A5, B6)
- Oscar Brashear – cornet (A2, A5, B6)
- Stuart Brotman – cimbalom (A2, A5, B6)
- Red Callender – tuba (A2, A5, B6)
- David Lindley – mandobanjo, mandolin (A2, A5, B6)
- Barbara Starkey – pump organ (A2, A5, B6)
- David Sherr – bass clarinet (B1, B3, B4)
- John Rodby – piano (A1, B4)
- Tom Pedrini – bass (B1, B3)
- Jimmy Adams – backing vocals (B4, B5)
- Cliff Givens – backing vocals (B4, B5)
- Bill Johnson – backing vocals (B4, B5)
- Simon Pico Payne – backing vocals (B4, B5)
- Randy Aldcroft – trombone (A1)
- Pat Rizzo – alto saxophone (A1)
- Mario Guarneri – cornet (A1)
- Bill Hood – bass saxophone (A1)
- Chuck Domanico – bass (A4)
- Earl Hines – piano (A4)
- Chuck Berghofer – bass (B4)
- Willie Schwartz – clarinet (B4)
References
- ^ AllMusic review
- ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 158, 158.
- ^ McGrath, Paul (31 May 1978). "Ry Cooder". The Globe and Mail. p. F2.
- ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ discogs.org tracklist
