Jazz (Ry Cooder album)

Jazz
Studio album by
Ry Cooder
Released1978
RecordedAmigo Studios, North Hollywood
GenreTrad jazz, dixieland, ragtime
Length37:50
LabelWarner Bros. BSK 3197
ProducerJoseph Byrd, Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder chronology
Show Time
(1977) 		Jazz
(1978) 		Bop till You Drop
(1979)

Jazz is an album by the American musician and songwriter Ry Cooder, released in 1978 by Warner Bros. Records. The album was produced by Cooder and Joseph Byrd and was Cooder's seventh.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideC+[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

  1. "Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen) – 3:34
  2. "Face to Face That I Shall Meet Him" (Traditional; adapted by Joseph Spence) – 3:16
  3. "The Pearls / Tia Juana" (Jelly Roll Morton; adapted by Ry Cooder) – 4:18
  4. "The Dream" (Jack the Bear, Jess Pickett) – 5:03
  5. "Happy Meeting in Glory" (Traditional; adapted by Joseph Spence) – 3:13

LP side B

  1. "In a Mist" (Bix Beiderbecke) – 2:05
  2. "Flashes" (Bix Beiderbecke) – 2:17
  3. "Davenport Blues" (Bix Beiderbecke) – 2:01
  4. "Shine" (Cecil Mack, Ford Dabney) – 3:43
  5. "Nobody" (Bert Williams) – 5:07
  6. "We Shall Be Happy" (Traditional; adapted by Joseph Spence) – 3:13

Charts

Year Chart Peak
1978 Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 68

Personnel

References

  1. ^ AllMusic review
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved February 23, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  3. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 158, 158.
  4. ^ McGrath, Paul (31 May 1978). "Ry Cooder". The Globe and Mail. p. F2.
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 73. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  6. ^ discogs.org tracklist


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