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Jimmy Giuffre

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc One: Emphasis, Stuttgart 1961 (52:00)
1. Whirrrr - 4:15
2. Emphasis - 7:48
3. Sonic - 5:27
4. Venture - 4:21
5. Jesus Maria - 6:14
6. Stretching Out (Suite For Germany) - 11:20
7. Carla - 5:45
8. Cry, Want - 7:01
Disc Two: Flight, Bremen 1961 (62:37)
1. Call of the Centaur - 3:59
2. Postures - 6:56
3. Sonic - 5:21
4. Goodbye - 5:56
5. Stretching Out (Suite For Germany) - 11:12
6. Cry, Want - 7:34
7. Flight - 5:39
8. That's True, That's True - 8:39
9. Trance - 5:51
10. Whirrr - 2:31
Emphasis & Flight 1961: Jimmy Giuffre

by Jeff Stockton
Up until around the time this recording was made, jazz had been beat crazy. Fast or slow, the implicit goal was swing, above all. By removing drums from the equation, Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, and Steve Swallow generated their own rhythms, tested the musical expressiveness of their instruments, and explored variations in tempo and tone by ...
Fly Away Little Bird

Label: Owl Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Fly Away Little Bird; Fits; I Can
The Easy Way

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Easy Way; Mack The Knife; Come Rain Or Come Shine; Careful; Ray's Time; A Dream; Off Center; Montage; Time Enough.
Jimmy Giuffre: Cry Freedom

by Rex Butters
It’s Jimmy Giuffre’s birthday. An unseasonable snow covers the ground around the converted old New England stone polishing mill that he and his wife Juanita have called home for 26 years. The 82 year old multi reed player and iconoclast listens to piano works by Villa Lobos and Ravel, birthday presents from friends. A restless explorer ...
Jimmy Giuffre 3: The Easy Way

by Joshua Weiner
Jimmy Giuffre's jazz has got to be among the sparsest ever laid down; you can see a whole lot of daylight between the notes. But the sketch-like quality of his music belies a quiet intensity that has an almost hypnotic attraction. This is not jazz that jumps out at you and grabs you by the lapels. ...
Giuffre/Bley/Swallow: Fly Away Little Bird

by Rex Butters
Recorded a year before this trio's final record in ’93, Fly Away Little Bird delivers a more grounded, earthy performance than Conversations With a Goose. Here, Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, and Steve Swallow explore their blues roots, particularly Giuffre. And, in addition to their trademark spontaneous inventions, they lovingly render five standards and a surprisingly strong ...
Social Skills

by AAJ Staff
We, as a society, are rapidly losing all of our important social skills. I'm not talking about etiquette things, like which one is the salad fork. I'm talking about the skills needed to have any type of meaningful interaction with our fellow human beings. Things seem to be conspiring to keep us more and more isolated. ...