Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow

Giuffre/Bley/Swallow: Emphasis & Flight (1961)

by AAJ Staff
December 25, 2003

Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow Emphasis & Flight 1961 Hatology 2003

At a time when the leading edge of mainstream jazz was pulling through modal jazz into hard bop, Jimmy Giuffre was headed in another direction. His early trios were simultaneously polite and experimental, an unusual combination that revealed both his cool roots and his fearlessness in stepping over the cliff. Nowhere were these qualities more evident than on his early-'60s trio records ...