What Is There to Say

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What Is There to Say
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Live album by
Released2001
Recorded13–14 September 1990
VenueVine Street Bar and Grill, Hollywood, California
Genre Jazz, Bop
Label Pablo
Producer Eric Miller
Joe Pass chronology
Resonance
(2000)
What Is There to Say
(2001)
Meditation: Solo Guitar
(2002)
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What Is There to Say (or more completely, What Is There to Say: Joe Pass Solo Guitar) is a live album by jazz guitarist Joe Pass, recorded in 1990 and released posthumously in 2001.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Django" (John Lewis) – 5:02
  2. "Old Folks" (Willard Robison, Dedette Lee Hill) – 4:13
  3. "I Concentrate on You" (Cole Porter) – 4:04
  4. "I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder) – 5:01
  5. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:02
  6. "Medley: It's All in the Game/Yesterdays" (Carl Sigman, Charles Dawes, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 6:29
  7. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:30
  8. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) – 7:01
  9. "What Is There to Say?" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 6:44
  10. "Nobody Else But Me" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 5:17
  11. "Lush Life" (Billy Strayhorn) – 7:15

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1132. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)