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Jim Hall: Live!

by David Rickert
July 25, 2003

Jim Hall was a sideman on countless sessions with jazz notables--Sonny Rollins and Bill Evans to name but two--yet his work as a leader remains largely unreissued. This makes the reappearance of this 1976 live recording a real treat for jazz guitar fans, for whom Hall is one of the greatest and most imitated legends. Hall ...

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Downbeat Critic's Choice

By Jim Hall

Label: Telarc
Released: 2002

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Jim Hall: Downbeat Critics

Read "Downbeat Critics" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 2, 2002

At the top of his game... Seventy-two-year-old Jim Hall shows little indication of slowing down. He has been performing on the Telarc Jazz roster since 1994 and has produced nine recordings for the label, only missing 1996 as a release year. These recordings have received broad and receptive commentary from the critical community. These recordings approach ...

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Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant

by Phil DiPietro
June 1, 2002

At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...

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Ben Monder: Le Monde du Monder

by Phil DiPietro
January 1, 2002

With a fittingly well-documented career, boasting a range of stunning appearances on over 50 recordings, including 14 since the year 2000, Ben Monder has solidified his position as one of the finest players of his generation. A chordal and textural master, unafraid to thoroughly explore advanced harmonic concepts, Ben's appearance on a sideman date ...

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Jim Hall & Basses

By Jim Hall

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: End The Beguine!; Bent Blue; Abstract 1; Al The Things You Are; Abstract 2; Sam Jones; Don

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Youk Ali

By Jim Hall

Label: Telarc
Released: 2001

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Jim Hall: Jim Hall & Basses

Read "Jim Hall & Basses" reviewed by Dave Nathan

by Dave Nathan
October 1, 2001

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, ...

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Jim Hall: Jim Hall & Basses

Read "Jim Hall & Basses" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 1, 2001

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, ...

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Pat Metheny: Jim Hall & Pat Metheny

Read "Jim Hall & Pat Metheny" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 2001

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 ...