After recording the classic
For Django and
Catch Me sets for Pacific Jazz, guitarist
Joe Pass got stuck recording commercial material for that label's subsidiary World Pacific. This long out of print LP finds
Pass and a clearly bored
Chet Baker (on flügelhorn) performing some of
Bob Florence's duller arrangements for an orchestra and distracting background voices. The music consists of then-current and now mostly forgotten pop tunes (Eliot Tiegel in the liner notes raves about how great the songs are) including "It Was a Very Good Year," "What Now My Love," "The Phoenix Love Theme," and the one tune still remembered, "Dindi."
Pass has a few worthwhile spots, but is often cut off by the singers or the overly tight charts. A historical curiosity at best. ~ Scott Yanow