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Jim Hall: Jim Hall & Basses
by Dave Nathan
Around five years ago fellow guitarist Pat Martino cut an album with fellow guitar players of differing styles. Now master guitarist Jim Hall, is walking down a similar path, only with a gaggle of highly accomplished bass players representing somewhat, but not completely, different artistic profiles. Dave Holland has been on the cutting edge of jazz, ...
Jim Hall: Jim Hall & Basses
by Mark Corroto
A bit leery of concept records, I wondered what some of my best friends would think of Jim Hall’s latest record, Jim Hall & Basses. Given Hall’s musical philosophy of treating the bass as if it were a fellow guitar, these duets and trio tracks sustain interest throughout. Jim Hall, in his fifth decade of jazz, ...
Pat Metheny: Jim Hall & Pat Metheny
by AAJ Staff
Master and apprentice. Predecessor and descendant. Originator and influenced. None of those descriptions of the musical relationship on Jim Hall & Pat Metheny quite sound right. Nor are they accurate. After all, in his own way, Metheny has been greatly original and influential as well. Yet, what we hear on ...
Ornette Coleman: The Complete Science Fiction Sessions
by David Adler
Listening to the first moments of “What Reason Could I Give," the lead-off track on this valuable reissue, one is reminded of Ornette Coleman's pervasive influence on present-day jazz composition. The expanded ensemble, the busy rhythms percolating underneath sustained chords and melodic figures, the dream-like vocals by Asha Puthli: all of it brims with the kind ...
Ornette Coleman: Complete Science Fiction Sessions
by Derek Taylor
Before the arrival of this recent reissue Ornette Coleman's brief, but fertile stint for Columbia Records was spread across a hopelessly convoluted morass of LPs and CDs, import and domestic. The folks at Columbia, who have over the past few years re-hipped themselves to the wealth of music bursting the seams in their vaults, targeted their ...
