Jazz (Ry Cooder album) - Misplaced Pages

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
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Christgau's Record Guide	C+
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

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."

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)	68

Personnel

Ry Cooder – guitar, Dobro, vocals, mandolin, tiple, harp
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
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.
The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 158, 158.
McGrath, Paul (31 May 1978). "Ry Cooder". The Globe and Mail. p. F2.
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.
discogs.org tracklist

v t e Ry Cooder
Solo albums	Ry Cooder (1970) Into the Purple Valley (1972) Boomer's Story (1972) Paradise and Lunch (1974) Chicken Skin Music (1976) Show Time (1977) Jazz (1978) Bop Till You Drop (1979) Borderline (1980) The Slide Area (1982) Get Rhythm (1987) Chávez Ravine (2005) My Name Is Buddy (2007) I, Flathead (2008) Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down (2011) Election Special (2012) The Prodigal Son (2018)
Collaborative albums	Jamming with Edward! (1972) Little Village (1992) A Meeting by the River (1993) Talking Timbuktu (1994) Buena Vista Social Club (1997) Mambo Sinuendo (2003) Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall (2008) San Patricio (2010) Live in San Francisco (2013)
Soundtrack albums	Performance (1970) The Long Riders (1980) Southern Comfort (1981) The Border (1982) Streets of Fire (1984) Paris, Texas (1985) Music from Alamo Bay (1985) Blue City (1986) Crossroads (1986) Johnny Handsome (1989) Trespass (1993) Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) Last Man Standing (1996) The End of Violence (1997) Primary Colors (1998) My Blueberry Nights (2007)

This 1970s jazz album-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: