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Jim Hall: Hide and Seek (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 02, 07

Jim Hall's compositions can appear deceptively simple. With the sparse trio instrumentation on “Hide And Seek,” the a...

Jim Hall & Pat Metheny: All the Things You Are (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music October 23, 07

Throughout his prolific career collaborating with Bill Evans, Ron Carter and Sonny Rollins, guitarist Jim Hall has in...

Jimmy Raney: Move It (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 16, 09

After the first of two stints with Stan Getz in 1951-52, clean, crisp swing/bop guitarist Jimmy Raney recorded his fi...

Jim Hall: Concierto de Aranjuez (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

Jim Hall’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” unites three of the purest melodists in jazz in Baker, Desmond, and the guitarist ...

Jim Hall: Two's Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 21, 08

Jim Hall's "Two's Blues" is an excellent display of the guitarist's improvisational abilities and his rhythm section'...

Jim Hall: Good Friday Blues (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 28, 07

In 1960, when producer Richard Bock conceived a blues anthology for his Pacific Jazz label, he called Jim Hall, ...

Jim Hall: Piece for Guitar & Strings (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Jim Hall's pre-1960 written output had been, as was the guitarist himself, modest. Hall the composer came out of left...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Jim Hall: Things Ain't What They Used To Be (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music February 15, 08

It's a matter of historical record. Jim Hall was born in Buffalo. What we can't figure out is which section of Buffal...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRACKS BY PIANO TRIOS WITH GUITAR AND BASS

                  Nat King...

Jim Hall: Frisell Frazzle (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music May 03, 08

On Dialogues, Jim Hall decided to record with some more contemporary artists as a means to stretch and stimulate his ...

Jim Hall: Bon Ami (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music May 03, 08

Guitarist extraordinaire Jim Hall's harmonically challenging composition "Bon Ami" effectively elicits Joe Lovano's s...

Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Migration (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 01, 09

It's been written that if Bill Frisell were to play without his electronic effects, he would sound like Jim Hall. It'...

Jim Hall: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

This is an astounding attempt to use the duo concept from the Bill Evans/Jim Hall 1962 recording of "My Funny Valenti...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE

            My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Masters of War (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 07, 08

Over the past two decades, eclectic guitarist Bill Frisell ("eclectric" maybe) has become renowned for maverick tune ...

Bill Evans & Jim Hall: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Bill Evans and Jim Hall set the standard for duo playing with the release of Undercurrent. More than four decades la...

Jim Hall & Ron Carter: Alone Together (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music May 04, 08

The very title to the song and CD -- "Alone Together" -- promises an intimate duet. And the two musicians in questi...

Jim Hall: All The Things You Are (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 12, 08

At first alone with his guitar, then with himself through re-recording, Jim Hall fashions a refreshingly thoughtful v...

Bill Evans & Jim Hall: My Funny Valentine (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 20, 09

Stripped of any sentimentality, this fast aggressive version of the Rodgers & Hart classic shows Bill Evans and Jim H...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE

            My Funny Valentine, artwork by Suzanne Cerny ...

Bill Evans & Jim Hall: Darn That Dream (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

Nearly six years of an average lifespan, scientists calculate, are spent dreaming. The ancients considered dreams pro...

Jim Hall: Big Blues (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music February 19, 08

On this dark-toned blues dedicated to Stanley Turrentine, Hall displays his advanced harmonic sense and lyricism in t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ESSENTIAL JAZZ GUITAR

          The Guitarist, artwork by Suzanne Cerny They say t...

Jimmy Giuffre: The Easy Way (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music December 07, 08

The Easy Way was a transitional album for Jimmy Giuffre. By 1959, the ever-restless reedman had mostly drained his po...

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