Jimmy Giuffre Trio en Italia, 1959

La capacidad de internet de sorprender no tiene límites. En esta ocasión se trata de un concierto completo de la gira europea del trío de Jimmy Giuffre con Jim Hall y Buddy Clark en 1959, en Italia en este caso.

Happy 80th birthday, Jim Hall

Jim Hall is one of the greatest guitar players in jazz history. Today it is his 80th birthday, and to celebrate, I recommend this interview with Library of Congress music man Larry Appelbaum.

"What does my music mean to me...?
What came to mind is that it is me, actually"

A Spotify playlist (VI): Art Farmer & Jim Hall Quartet

Steve Swallow, Art Farmer, Walter Perkins, Jim Hall
Picture from the cover of Live at the Half Note (Atlantic)

After last week's list of the Paul Desmond Quartet featuring Jim Hall, I immediately went to see whether Spotify had anything by the other great pianoless quartet with Hall on guitar, also from the Sixties, but with a different wind instrument at the helm: Art Farmer on flugelhorn (exclusively - no trumpet here). And yes, all the official stuff is there, plus a few extras.

A Spotify playlist (V): Paul Desmond & Jim Hall Quartet

Yesterday Paul Desmond would have celebrated his 86th birthday. Alas, he barely made it to 50. Doug Ramsey wrote about this anniversary in his blog. For those who don't know it, Ramsey was a personal friend of Desmond's, and he's written Take Five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond, a thorough and loving biography of his pal, which must be the best-edited jazz bio ever: Large size, hardback, good paper, great picture reproduction... and the text itself is the right mix of gigantic and meticulous research - Desmond was a notoriously private man -, and excellent prose. (If you find it expensive, keep in mind that it is a huge and heavy book).

Happy 80th birthday, Sonny Rollins!

"The Bridge" (1962)



(Jim Hall, guitar; Bob Cranshaw, bass; Ben Riley, drums)

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"Weaver of Dreams" (1959)



(Henry Grimes, bass; Pete La Roca, drums)


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(Kenny Drew, piano; NHØP, bass; Albert 'Tootie' Heath, drums)

Links/Enlaces:

* The Complete Sonny Rollins on Spotify (1949-2007)

This list has 540 tracks - about two days' worth of music - everything that's available in Spotify, as a sideman (starting with Babs Gonzales) and as a leader (including his complete Prestige, Riverside, Blue Note, and RCA recordings, and most of his massive Milestone output), both in the studio and live... and two tunes by the Stones.

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Esta lista contiene 540 temas -un par de días seguidos de música-, todo el material disponible en Spotify, como sideman (desde su debut con Babs Gonzales) y como líder (incluyendo sus grabaciones completas para Prestige, Blue Note, Riverside y RCA, así como la mayor parte de su mastondóntica producción para Milestones), tanto en estudio como en vivo... y dos temas con los Rolling Stones.

* SonnyRollins.com
* Ira Gitler entrevista a Sonny Rollins (en español).