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Tyree Glenn / Hank Jones Quintet/Sextet: Complete Recordings
by Joe Alterman
In the history of jazz, few pianists have been as prolific as the recently deceased Hank Jones. His tasteful and subtle playing is documented on literally thousands of recordings. Many of them are today known as jazz classics--benchmarks to the greatness of this music--and Jones' playing and support on all of them were crucial in creating those historic, beautiful and legendary legacies.For whatever reason, many of Jones' recordings have long been either forgotten, out of print, or very ...
Continue ReadingHank Jones: With Oliver Jones & the Great Jazz Trio
by Joel Roberts
Oliver Jones and Hank JonesPleased to Meet YouJustin Time2010 The Great Jazz TrioMoreoverTest of Time2010 Hank Jones continues his remarkable late-in-life surge of activity with this new release documenting his first-ever recorded encounter with Canadian piano mainstay Oliver Jones. Hank Jones was 90 when Pleased to Meet You was recorded two years ago in ...
Continue ReadingHank Jones - Oliver Jones: Pleased to Meet You
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questa incisione della Justin Time vede uniti due pianisti, ambedue sotto contratto per l'etichetta canadese: il leggendario Hank Jones e il più noto esponente del mainstream in Canada, Oliver Jones, allievo prediletto della sorella di Oscar Peterson. Una registrazione che potrebbe definirsi “di circostanza" e che, se vogliamo, nulla aggiunge alla luminosa carriera di Hank Jones, il quale in passato ha saputo evidenziare le sue eccelse doti anche in contesti di gran lunga più significativi: basti pensare ai suoi lavori ...
Continue ReadingHank Jones / Oliver Jones: Pleased To Meet You
by Raul d'Gama Rose
What a surprise to hear the first-ever recording that joins piano maestros Hank Jones and Oliver Jones. A Detroit native, ninety-year-old Hank Jones is from the family that gave us Thad “Bartok with Wings" Jones and polyrhythmist Elvin Jones, and he has participated in historic bebop sessions with Charlie Parker and memorable duets with Tommy Flanagan. Montreal's Oliver Jones, who once followed in the footsteps of Oscar Peterson, has emerged to forge a virtuosic path as a ...
Continue ReadingRoberta Gambarini: You Are There
by Suzanne Lorge
Grammy-nominated vocalist Roberta Gambarini has been working with pianist Hank Jones since 2001, when the pair first met and performed together at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival at the University of Idaho. Since then she's toured the world with Jones and his sidemen, George Mraz on bass and Willie Jones III on drums.
Live performance on the road and in concert was the only preparation Gambarini and Jones used in recording their first album together as a duo, ...
Continue ReadingHank Jones, Frank Wess, and Eddie Diehl
by Francis Lo Kee
Hank Jones/Christian McBride/Jimmy Cobb West of 5th Chesky 2006 Hank Jones and Frank Wess Hank and Frank Lineage 2006 Eddie Diehl Well, Here It Is... Lineage 2006
Hank Jones is the alpha and omega of jazz. What great musician hasn't he played with? ...
Continue ReadingAa.Vv.: Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life
by AAJ Italy Staff
Strettissimo collaboratore di Duke Ellington per quasi trent’anni, Billy Strayhorn è uno dei grandi autori della storia del jazz. Basta scorrere i titoli dei brani contenuti in questo album per rinfrescarsi la memoria. Oggi, a quarant’anni dalla sua scomparsa, l’etichetta Blue Note pubblica questo CD, nel quale alcune delle sue più famose composizioni vengono interpretate da un nucleo di artisti davvero impressionante. Al di là del singolo brano, o della declinazione che ad esso viene attribuita dai singoli musicisti, quello ...
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