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In Memoriam: Jimmy Giuffre (1921-2008)
by AAJ Staff
Jimmy was quite an addition to my life. He was kind of a father figure to me, especially since my old man split when I was seven. I learned so much from Jimmy musically. For instance, if he had written something and he wanted the melody phrased a certain way, he would say, “Try to make ...
Jimmy Giuffre, Jazz Clarinetist and Composer, Dies at 86
Jimmy Giuffre, the adventurous clarinetist, composer and arranger whose 50-year journey through jazz led him from writing the Woody Herman anthem “Four Brothers" through minimalist, drummerless trios to striking experimental orchestral works, died on Thursday in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He was 86. The cause was pneumonia, brought about by complications of Parkinson's disease, said his wife of ...
Jimmy Giuffre; Infused Jazz with Blues, Classical Notes
Jimmy Giuffre, a jazz musician who composed a popular big-band anthem of the 1940s and became an innovator of a minimalist form of classically inspired jazz, died April 24 at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass. He had Parkinson's disease and would have turned 87 today. Mr. Giuffre (pronounced JOO-free) had his greatest early fame as ...
Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre Dead at 86
Pioneering jazz performer and composer Jimmy Giuffre, whose distinctive avant-garde clarinet style drove a lengthy career that included working with legend Woody Herman, has died at age 86, US media reported. Giuffre, a central figure in West Coast jazz best known for penning the big band classic “Four Brothers" with Herman in 1947, died Thursday in ...
The Life of a Trio: Saturday & Sunday
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2007
Track listing: Saturday: Clarinet Zone; Black Ivory; Owl Eyes; Endless Melody; Turns; Foreplay; We Agree; Clusters; December; Someone; Even Steven; By The Way. Sunday: Sensing; Monique; The Giant Guitar And The Black Stick; Industrial Suite;
Sanctuary Much; Tango Del Mar; The Hidden Voice; Mephisto; Where Were We?; Sweet Song; Scrambled Legs; Play Ball; Fallen Statue; Things; Two Singers; The Life Of A Trio.
Jimmy Giuffre: The Life of a Trio: Saturday & Sunday
by Matthew Miller
Jimmy Giuffre made waves in 1961-62 with the release of Fusion (Verve, 1961), Thesis (Verve, 1961) and Free Fall (Columbia, 1962). With pianist Paul Bley and a 20-year-old Steve Swallow on upright bass, the Third Stream innovator created the best music of his career--telepathic performances that continue to astound and inspire more than four decades later. ...
Cool One
Label: Giant Step Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Do It!; All For You; I Only Have Eyes For You; Four Brothers; Sultana; Nutty Pine; Wrought Of Iron; Iranic; Someone To Watch Over Me; A Ring-Tail Monkey; Chirpin
Jimmy Giuffre: Cool One
by Nic Jones
Within the archetypal West Coast sound, Jimmy Giuffre always had his own thing going on, and in the case of both The Four Brothers Sound (Atlantic) and Tangents In Jazz (Capitol), the two dates brought together here from the mid-1950s, that point seems obvious. He was of course a tenor saxophonist every bit as influenced by ...
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