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Minor Elegance is a 1990 studio album by Joe Diorio

Joe Diorio

Joseph Louis Diorio is an American jazz guitarist. He has performed with legends of jazz like Sonny Stitt, Eddie Harris, Ira Sullivan, Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, Horace Silver, and Freddie Hubbard...

and Robben Ford

Robben Ford

Robben Ford is an American blues, jazz and rock guitarist.-Biography:Ford was born in Woodlake, California, United States, but raised in Ukiah, California, and began playing the saxophone at age 10, picking up the guitar at age 13...

. Recorded live at the Mad Hatter Studios

Mad Hatter Studios

Mad Hatter Studios is a Los Angeles recording studio. It was established by Chick Corea in 1980.- Mad Hatter productions :* Self, Dare You Still Breathe?* This Can’t Be Life* Minor Elegance...

Los Angeles and mixed at the MGI Records Studios Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

Track listing

All compositions written by Joe Diorio except "Swank Thing" by Robben Ford, "Soul Eyes" by Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...

Swank Thing - 5:48
AM, PM - 5:34
E-minor Ballad - 6:36
Unis - 5:14
Blues for all Space Cadets - 6:36
Soul Eyes - 5:00
So What
So What (composition)
"So What" is the first track on the 1959 Miles Davis album Kind of Blue.-History:"So What" is one of the best known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E Dorian and another eight of D Dorian...

- 8:26

Personnel

Joe Diorio - Guitar
Robben Ford - Guitar
Gary Willis
Gary Willis
Gary Willis is an American bassist and composer known foremost as the co-founder of the jazz fusion band Tribal Tech. Aside from his work in Tribal Tech, Willis has worked with numerous other jazz musicians including Wayne Shorter, Dennis Chambers, and Allan Holdsworth...

- Bass
Peter Erskine
Peter Erskine
Peter Erskine is an American jazz drummer and composer. He has enjoyed a long and successful career as a session drummer, recording and touring with many famous jazz and rock artists, including Steely Dan and Weather Report...

- Drums
Oliver Hahn - piano and keyboards on "Swank Thing" and "Unis".

Production

Horst Polland & Andreas Vahsen - Producer, Mix
Larry Mah - Engineer
Thomas Ossig - Cover
FR Images - Photography

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