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Jim Hall - Downbeat Critics' Choice
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Jim Hall - Downbeat Critics' Choice
Eac Rip | Ape, Cue, Log | 357 MB inc. 5% WinRar Recovery Record
Genre: Jazz | 2002
Label: Telarc | Catalogue Number: CD-83557
Time 72:19 | Front & back covers
Eac Rip | Ape, Cue, Log | 357 MB inc. 5% WinRar Recovery Record
Genre: Jazz | 2002
Label: Telarc | Catalogue Number: CD-83557
Time 72:19 | Front & back covers
AMG Review
| “ | One of the many great things about guitarist Jim Hall is his unparalleled ability to excel in both a straight-ahead jazz context and in a variety of more experimental modes, from harmonically challenging avant-garde jazz to playful adaptations of Caribbean themes and innovative instrumental settings (such as the trio improvisation with bassist Scott Colley and George Mraz featured on this album). Hall's guitar sound is famously round, soft, and gentle, and yet his note choices and compositional strategies can be highly difficult. Down Beat Critics' Choice collects 12 tracks from albums Hall recorded for the Telarc label between 1995 and 2001, and includes some of his most exciting and sophisticated work, as well as a clunker or two. Among the former are his exquisite collaboration with guitarist Mike Stern on "Stern Stuff," which Hall composed in Stern's honor and which is based on a Monk-ish, almost atonal theme and yet features some of Hall's most spirited and sweetly swinging solo playing. The calypso-flavored "Pan-O-Rama," which features pianist Geoff Keezer, is another solid winner, as is the melancholy "Snowbound," a duet with accordionist Gil Goldstein. "Circus Dance" is just a bit too literal in its development of the titular theme, and never really gets off the ground. But the high points outnumber the low ones by a huge margin on this very fine collection. | ” |
Personnel:
Jim Hall - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Mike Stern, Bill Frisell - guitar
Pat Metheny - acoustic guitar
Louise Schulman - viola, strings
Maureen Gallagher, Stephanie Fricker, Ann Roggen, Ronald Carbone - viola
Myron Lutzke, Maxine Neuman, Richard Sher, Rozlyne Clarke, Richard Locker, Eugene J. Moye - cello
Marcus Rojas - strings, tuba
Derek DiCenzo - strings, steel drum
Gil Goldstein - accordion
Joe Lovano - clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Greg Osby - alto saxophone
Lew Soloff, Ryan Kisor, Jamie Finegan - trumpet
Claudio Roditi, Art Farmer, Tom Harrell - flugelhorn
Alex Brofsky - French horn
Conrad Herwig, Jim Pugh, Slide Hampton - trombone
Geoff Keezer, Kenny Barron - piano
Terry Clarke , Andy Watson - drums
Tracks:
01. Dream Steps
02. Stern Stuff
03. Snowbound
04. Fanfare
05. Quadrologue
06. Circus Dance
07. Pan-O-Rama
08. Furnished Flats
09. October Song
10. The Wind
11. Abstract 3
12. Tango Loco
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