If We May
1994 studio album by Paul Bley Trio
If We May | ||||
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Studio album by Paul Bley Trio | ||||
Released | 1994 | |||
Recorded | April 1993 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 55:47 | |||
Label | SteepleChase SCCD 31344 | |||
Producer | Nils Winther | |||
Paul Bley chronology | ||||
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If We May is an album of jazz standards by pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1993 and released on the SteepleChase label.[1]
Reception
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [2] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [3] |
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars, stating, "The music is quite accessible to straightahead fans even if Bley gives these warhorses some new twists, and he shows that he can swing with the best of them (not that anyone really doubted it)".[2]
Track listing
- "Long Ago (And Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) - 9:36
- "Don't Explain" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 9:43
- "If We May" (Paul Bley) - 10:08
- "Indian Summer" (Al Dubin, Victor Herbert) - 5:59
- "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 9:26
- "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 5:12
- "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) - 5:55
Personnel
- Paul Bley - piano
- Jay Anderson - bass
- Adam Nussbaum - drums
References
- ^ Paul Bley catalog, accessed June 28, 2014
- ^ a b Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed June 28, 2014
- ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
- v
- t
- e
- Introducing Paul Bley
- Paul Bley
- Solemn Meditation
- Footloose!
- Barrage
- Touching
- Closer
- Ramblin'
- Mr. Joy
- Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
- Ballads
- The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show
- Open, to Love
- Paul Bley/NHØP
- Jaco
- Alone, Again
- Quiet Song
- Tears
- Tango Palace
- Sonor
- Questions
- Diane
- My Standard
- Fragments
- The Paul Bley Quartet
- The Nearness of You
- Blues for Red
- Notes (with Paul Motian)
- Partners (with Gary Peacock)
- BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop
- Memoirs (with Charlie Haden and Paul Motian)
- 12 (+6) In a Row (with Hans Koch and Franz Koglmann)
- Right Time, Right Place (with Gary Burton)
- Changing Hands
- In the Evenings out There
- Paul Plays Carla
- Annette
- Hands On
- If We May
- Time Will Tell (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
- Chaos (with Furio Di Castri and Tony Oxley)
- Sankt Gerold (with Evan Parker and Barre Phillips)
- Notes on Ornette
- Not Two, Not One (with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian)
- Basics
- Nothing to Declare
- About Time
- Live at the Hilcrest Club 1958
- Coleman Classics Volume 1
- Improvisie
- Dual Unity (with Annette Peacock)
- Japan Suite
- Axis
- Hot
- Live at Sweet Basil
- Solo in Mondsee
- Play Blue: Oslo Concert