If We May Explained

If We May
Type:	Album
Artist:	Paul Bley Trio
Cover:	If We May.jpg
Released:	1994
Recorded:	April 1993
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	55:47
Label:	SteepleChase SCCD 31344
Producer:	Nils Winther
Chronology:	Paul Bley
Prev Title:	Hands On
Prev Year:	1993
Next Title:	Sweet Time
Next Year:	1993

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

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)".^[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

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/paul-bley/catalog/#steeplechase-sccd-31344 Paul Bley catalog
2. Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed June 28, 2014