If We May

If We May
Studio album by Paul Bley Trio
Released 1994
Recorded April 1993
Genre Jazz
Length 55:47
Label SteepleChase SCCD 31344
Producer Nils Winther
Paul Bley chronology

Hands On
(1993)		 If We May
(1993)		 Sweet Time
(1993)

If We May is an album jazz standards by pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1993 and released on the SteepleChase label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

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)".[2]

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

References

  1. ↑ Paul Bley catalog, accessed June 28, 2014
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed June 28, 2014