| Jazz | ||||
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| Released | 1978 | |||
| Recorded | Amigo Studios, North Hollywood | |||
| Genre | Trad jazz, dixieland, ragtime | |||
| Length | 37:50 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. BSK 3197 | |||
| Producer | Joseph Byrd, Ry Cooder | |||
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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.
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | C+ [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]
LP side A
LP side B
| Year | Chart | Peak |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Australia (Kent Music Report) [5] | 68 |
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