The Vinyl Countdown # 422

Ry Cooder, Jazz (1978)

Ry Cooder made a series of albums across the 1970s – “genre” albums – he took on blues and country and the various permutations. Here it was overt – Jazz – but we’re talking old; we’re talking, too, of a time when jazz was dead or dying (the mid/late 70s). All of Ry Cooder’s albums across the 1970s are crucial to me – and they’re a…