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Released
  
1994

Length
  
55:47

If We May (1993)
  
Sweet Time (1993)

Release date
  
1994

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
April 1993

Producer
  
Nils Winther

Artist
  
Paul Bley

Label
  
SteepleChase Records

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Similar
  
Paul Bley albums, Jazz albums

If We May is an album jazz standards by pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1993 and released on the SteepleChase label.

Contents

Reception

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)".

Track listing

  1. "Long Ago (And Far Away)" (Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern) - 9:36
  2. "Don't Explain" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 9:43
  3. "If We May" (Paul Bley) - 10:08
  4. "Indian Summer" (Al Dubin, Victor Herbert) - 5:59
  5. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 9:26
  6. " Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) - 5:12
  7. "Confirmation" (Charlie Parker) - 5:55

Personnel

  • Paul Bley - piano
  • Jay Anderson - bass
  • Adam Nussbaum - drums
  • Songs

    1Long Ago and Far Away (feat Jay Anderson & Adam Nussbaum)Adam Nussbaum - Jay Anderson9:39
    2Don't Explain (feat Jay Anderson & Adam Nussbaum)Adam Nussbaum - Jay Anderson9:46
    3If We May (feat Jay Anderson & Adam Nussbaum)Adam Nussbaum - Jay Anderson10:11

    References

    If We May Wikipedia