Jim Hall – Live Vol. 2-4 ( Toronto 1975) (3 CD, 2012/FLAC))

Features previously unreleased recordings from trio performances at Bourbon Street in Toronto, Canada on June 11-13, 1975.

The recordings provide an additional 3 hours of music from the original 1975 album Live!

 

• Jim Hall - g
• Don Thompson - b
• Terry Clarke - d

Rec.: live at Bourbon Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 11 (CD 2 - Volume Three), 12 (CD 1 - Volume Two) and 13 (CD 3 - Volume 4), 1975.

CD 1 - Volume Two

01. How Deep Is The Ocean (11:10)

02. Emily (6:24)

03. Valse Hot (7:11)

04. Love Letters (9:28)

05. Chelsea Bridge (10:06)

06. Something Tells Me (7:22)

07. Fly Me To The Moon (10:32)

CD 2 - Volume Three

01. Secret Love (14:56)

02. Baubles, Bangles And Beads (6:24)

03. In A Sentimental Mood (5:42)

04. Star Eyes (10:41)

05. Where Would I Be? (7:51)

06. Body And Soul (10:36)

07. Careful (7:45)

CD 3 - Volume 4

01. Someday My Prince Will Come (9:35)

02. Come Rain Or Come Shine (12:46)

03. Prelude To A Kiss (6:33)

04. Everything I Love (9:37)

05. Blue Dove (9:18)

06. Embraceable You (8:09)

07. The Theme (5:33)

Jimmy Giuffre & Jim Hall Trio - Complete Studio Recordings {1956-1959} (4 CD, 2008/FLAC)

 

Jimmy Giuffre may not have gotten his due with American audiences outside very specific kinds of jazz circles, but he was loved and respected by other musicians and the audiences of Europe and Asia. His reputation among those groups of listeners and players is well deserved for the radical, if quiet and unassuming path he walked throughout his seven-decade career. These sides, recorded between 1956 and 1959 with guitarist Jim Hall, his most symbiotic collaborator and foil, are at the heart of his reputation as a pioneer -- even more so than his killer early-'60s sides (à la Free Fall) with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow. This whopping four-disc, 74-rack set on Gambit collects all the trio sides that Hall and Giuffre shared during those years for Atlantic and Capitol. Their collaborators were a stellar lot as well, whether it was Bob Brookmeyer, Ralph Pena, Ray Brown, Red Mitchell, Jim Atlas or Wilfred Middlebrooks on bass, trombone, or trumpet, and piano in some instances (Brookmeyer). Space, harmony, and an inside-out approach to melody were the focuses of these groups at all times. In addition to the studio trio sides there are seven live selections which have never been issued on CD, including a stellar and now legendary performance of "Song of the Wind." The remastering job is wonderful, spacious, warm, and very present. There are also two unaccompanied performances by Giuffre, where he electronically overdubs four sax lines on each tune as a way of looking forward to his own career in the '70s. This is a stellar collection for the hardcore Giuffre fan: to have all this material in one place, beautifully assembled and annotated, is a real treat. 

Paul Desmond - The Complete Paul Desmond RCA Victor Recordings ft. Jim Hall [5 CD, 1997]

  

THE COMPLETE RCA VICTOR RECORDINGS includes the five solo albums Desmond released on RCA's Bluebird imprint in the early 1960s: DESMOND BLUE, TAKE TEN, GLAD TO BE UNHAPPY, BOSSA ANTIGUA and EASY LIVING. Between 1962 and 1964 Paul Desmond , Dave Brubeck's alto saxophonist (and composer of "Take Five"), recorded five remarkable albums for RCA with guitarist Jim Hall. (Listeners might recall that the inimitable Hall also recorded with Sonny Rollins for RCA during the same period.) Luckily, RCA has seen fit to reissue the Desmond-Hall sessions in an attractive 5-CD box. Of these, only the first session, DESMOND BLUE, was arranged for strings. Otherwise it's just Desmond and Hall, a few good bass players and the great MJQ drummer Connie Kay, whom Desmond long revered for his subtle touch.