If you search the web for information about a 1966 album on the World Pacific label by jazz guitar great, Joe Pass – The Stones Jazz – you will generally see uniform agreement that this album was recorded on July 20, 1966. I love that: one day to record an entire album. Around this same time period, the Beatles had just finished recording an album – Revolver – that had taken 77 times longer than The Stones Jazz to record.
On the back cover there are 10 Stones songs listed – all but one of them from their fertile 1965-1966 period:
“Lady Jane”; “I Am Waiting”; “19th Nervous Breakdown”; “Not Fade Away”; “As Tears Go By”; “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”; “Play With Fire”; “Paint It, Black”; “What a Shame”; and “Mother’s Little Helper.”
Mysteriously, the 11th song is not even mentioned, even though it’s the best song on the album – and the only Joe Pass original, “Stones Jazz”:
It’s nice to see four trombone players listed on the album credits with tenor sax being the only other member of the horn section. Album engineered by Bruce Botnick.
Joe Pass: Guitar
Dennis Budimir: Guitar
John Pisano: Guitar
Ray Brown: Bass
John Guerin: Drums
Victor Feldman: Percussion
Bob Florence: Piano
Bill Perkins: Tenor Sax
Milt Bernhardt: Trombone
Dick Hamilton: Trombone
Herbie Harper: Trombone
Gale Martin: Trombone