Joe Pass - A Sign Of The Times (1966)

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Title: A Sign Of The Times
Year Of Release: 2010
Label: World Pacific Records [TOCJ-50097]
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 28:50
Total Size: 187 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. A Sign of the Times (Hatch) - 2:15
02. The Phoenix Love Theme (Senza Fine) (Wilder-Paoli) - 2:53
03. Nowhere Man (Lennon-McCartney) - 2:41
04. Dindi (Oliveira-Gilbert-Jobim) - 2:21
05. A Summer Song (Metcalfe-Noble-Stuart) - 2:42
06. Moment to Moment (Mercer-Mancini) - 2:25
07. It Was a Very Good Year (Drake) - 3:03
08. Are You There (With Another Girl) (David-Bacharach) - 3:13
09. What Now My Love (Et Maintenant) (Delanoe-Sigman-Becaud) - 2:42
10. Softly as I Leave You (Calabrese-Shaper-De Vita) - 2:20
11. Sweet September (McGuffie-Stanley-Phillips) - 2:15
Joe Pass - A Sign Of The Times (1966)

personnel :

Joe Pass - guitar
Chet Baker - flugelhorn
Frank Capp - drums
Bob Florence - arranger, conductor

After recording the classic For Django and Catch Me sets for Pacific Jazz, guitarist Joe Pass got stuck recording commercial material for that label's subsidiary World Pacific. This long out of print LP finds Pass and a clearly bored Chet Baker (on flügelhorn) performing some of Bob Florence's duller arrangements for an orchestra and distracting background voices. The music consists of then-current and now mostly forgotten pop tunes (Eliot Tiegel in the liner notes raves about how great the songs are) including "It Was a Very Good Year," "What Now My Love," "The Phoenix Love Theme," and the one tune still remembered, "Dindi." Pass has a few worthwhile spots, but is often cut off by the singers or the overly tight charts. A historical curiosity at best.~ Scott Yanow