Jazz (Ry Cooder album)

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
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 LP side B
 * 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
 * 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

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)