Jazz

by Ry Cooder

Jazz cover art

Eschewing his usual slide-guitar blues and Tex-Mex repertoire, Cooder meticulously reconstructs early 20th-century American jazz and ragtime compositions. The highly reverent, acoustic arrangements feature complex stringband interpretations of works by Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke.

Genres

  • Jazz

Tracklist

  1. Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now
  2. Face to Face That I Shall Meet Him
  3. The Pearls / Tia Juana
  4. The Dream
  5. Happy Meeting in Glory
  6. In a Mist
  7. Flashes
  8. Davenport Blues
  9. Shine
  10. Nobody
  11. We Shall Be Happy