Play (Mike Stern album)
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ReleasedSeptember 14, 1999
RecordedDecember 1998 – January 1999
Studio
- Litho Studios (Seattle Washington)
- Kampo Studios and Avatar Studios (New York City, New York)
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| Released | September 14, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | December 1998 – January 1999 | |||
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| Length | 62:37 | |||
| Label | Atlantic Records[1] | |||
| Producer | Jim Beard | |||
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| The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |   [2] |
Play is an album by the American jazz guitarist Mike Stern, released in 1999 through Atlantic Records.[3][4]
The album peaked at No. 21 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz Albums chart.[5]
Bill Frisell and John Scofield contributed to the album.[6] It was tracked live, with few overdubs.[7]
Critical reception
The Times thought that Stern "displays a new maturity—these are properly integrated songs, not simply backdrops for long solos."[8] The Los Angeles Daily News wrote that the album is "highlighted by fine work from Stern and Scofield on the title track's minor blues, the New Orleans-flavored 'Small World' and the bop-driven 'Outta Town'."[9]