Jazz Articles about Jim Hall

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Jazz Poetry

The Answer is Jim

by William DeLancey Adamson
December 11, 2013

The freshening breeze slides off the shadowed slope past the warming land the sand the sapphire bay then smacks the spinnaker with its surging power and suddenly we're flying! through the spray and fiery sun down to Aruba with you Jim on your music Oh I can't get started any more it's no use when I heard your name on the radio today my ...

Album Review

Jim Hall: Live at Birdland

Read "Live at Birdland" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 8, 2013

L'etichetta indipendente ArtistShare si sostiene finanziariamente con contributi economici versati da una comunità aperta di musicisti e di appassionati di jazz e festeggia i suoi dieci anni di attività con un disco dal vivo del socio più maturo: il sempre giovane di spirito Jim Hall, ripreso al Birdland, col suo quartetto, nelle serate del 10 e 11 novembre del 2010. Hall è nato a Buffalo, città situata oltre 500 km a nord- ovest di New York, il 4 dicembre del ...

Extended Analysis

The Jim Hall Quartet: Live at Birdland

by Victor Verney
January 9, 2013

Guitarist Jim Hall, now in his eighth decade, continues to be a vigorous performer, fresh-minded arranger and creative composer. He's been around so long, and done so much, that it's humbling to try writing something fresh about him: there is little to say that hasn't already been said, and in many cases quite eloquently. A Google search turns up a lengthy list of well-chosen adjectives: subtle, fluid, daring, poetic, empathetic, graceful, economical, experimental, intuitive, inquisitive. Many reviewers ...

Album Review

Jim Hall - Joey Baron: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 14, 2011

Magnifici gli 80 anni di Jim Hall, indomito nel proporre musiche audaci, lontane dai clichè. In Conversations coinvolge l'amico e partner Joey Baron per un'esplorazione assai sofisticata della formula corde e percussioni. Chi frequenta la musica di Hall sa che il chitarrista predilige i toni sfuggenti, allusivi, rifiutando a priori l'enfasi e i toni declamatori. Anche a costo di apparire talvolta distaccato, privo di quel calore espressivo richiesto ad un performer. Ma Hall cattura progressivamente, dall'alto di una sapienza armonica ...

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Album Review

Jim Hall: Concierto

Read "Concierto" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
February 3, 2011

Amongst the many CTI classics of the 1970s, few stand the test of time as well as guitarist Jim Hall's Concierto, an ambitious album that, in its original form, married one side of modern mainstream with a second taken up by a 19-minute version of Joaquin Rodrigo's 1939 piece for classical guitar and orchestra, “Concierto de Aranjuez." That Miles Davis and Gil Evans had already delivered what was considered the definitive jazz adaptation on the trumpeter's 1960 classic, Sketches of ...

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Album Review

Jim Hall & Joey Baron: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 25, 2010

The art of the duo is nothing new to guitar legend Jim Hall. His one-on-one encounters with bassist Ron Carter have been wowing jazz fans for decades. More recent mano a mano musical encounters with equally sublime artists, like pianist Geoffrey Keezer, and guitarist Bill Frisell, have produced works that challenge but, ultimately, remain largely listenable. Conversations--Hall's studio encounter with drummer Joey Baron--ultimately, falls into the same general category. The fifteen tracks here are an odd, yet endearing, mishmash of ...

Album Review

Jim Hall - Bill Frisell: Hemispheres

Read "Hemispheres" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 30, 2009

Per Jim Hall quello del duo è stato un formato musicale praticato assiduamente negli anni, anche se quasi mai con altri chitarristi, ma preferendo generalmente pianisti e contrabbassisti (memorabili gli incontri con Bill Evans e Ron Carter). Solo in anni recenti ha cominciato a frequentare altri specialisti della sei corde, dapprima timidamente (nell'album Dialogues con Bill Frisell e Mike Stern, con la presenza di una sezione ritmica), poi sempre più decisamente, realizzando un intero CD in duo con Pat Metheny, ...