''Minor Elegance'' is a 1990 studio album by
Joe Diorio and
Robben Ford
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. Recorded live at the Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles and mixed at the MGI Records Studios,
Munich
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Track listing
All compositions written by Joe Diorio except "Swank Thing" by Robben Ford, "Soul Eyes" by
Mal Waldron
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Wa ...
, and "So What" by
Miles Davis
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of music ...
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# "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 may refer to:
Law
*Demurrer, colloquially called a "So what?" pleading
Music Albums
* ''So What'' (Anti-Nowhere League album) or the 1981 title song (see below), 2000
* '' So What?: Early Demos and Live Abuse'', by Anti-Nowhere League, ...
" - 8:26
Personnel
* Joe Diorio - guitar
* Robben Ford - guitar
*
Gary Willis - bass
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Peter Erskine - 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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Jazz albums by American artists
Instrumental albums
1990 albums