JSngry Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Ok, I bought the LP when it was first issued (long story...), but had totally slept on this reissue until a few days ago. What a NICE package this is. They've added enough extra material to make a single LP set into nearly a double-LP, and don't none of it suck. Then there's Ron Carter - this has got to be one of his best post-Miles outings, period. All the floody-doody crap he like to do, he does with taste and restraint here, and it works. Yeah, the title piece is slick, and yeah, Steve Gadd proves problematic on occasion, but nevertheless, this is good stuff. Hall plays superbly throughout. And TWO takes of "Rock Skippin'..." a tune that wasn't even on the original, hey, I'll take that! Recommended if you like this kind of thing and don't already have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harold_Z Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 I second Jim on this. It's a really nice record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 I'll third him. I picked this up a few months ago, and it lives up to the rave reviews. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morganized Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Agreed. I picked this one up not too very long ago and it started me on a Jim Hall kick. That led to his collaborations with Paul Desmond. Got stuck there for a while. Hall's touch is fantastic. He reminds me of Miles' famous quote that it is often the notes that you do not play that are more important than the ones you do. He plays what he needs to play at just the right time. This is a good record and if you are not familiar with a lot of Jim Hall's work it is a good place to start. IMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 I keep reminding myself to pick up the updated version. I just have the original release on CBS from way back in 1975. Hall's take on "Concierto de Aranjuez" is simply one of my all-time favorite pieces. I mean, in addition to Hall, you have Chet Baker, Paul Desmond and Roland Hanna as well as the aforementioned Ron Carter, all playing in the finest of fettle. How much better can it get? When I did radio some years ago, I had a Saturday morning show and I'd make it a point to play Concierto de Aranjuez on a regular basis. It never once failed to light up the phone lines. Well, hold it...this was jazz radio, so maybe just a couple of calls. Once that tune revs up and kicks into gear, it's as pure as pure pleasure gets. BTW, Jim, my copy of the CD has "Rock Skippin'" on it as well as an alternate take of "The Answer is Yes". Both are indicated as being previously unreleased. Up over and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connoisseur series500 Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 This is one of the cds I play to help put me to sleep at night. I mean that in a positive way. It's really mellow and nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 24, 2005 Report Share Posted September 24, 2005 I just have a vinyl copy I've had a long time. (And it "shows.") GREAT session! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 I picked this disc up in a sale, never having heard (about) it before... and it blew me away and then some! Desmond could do (almost?) no wrong, and yes, even Gadd is not a major problem... a terrific disc! Lon, you should get the CD reissue! Jim (or any other of the Americans): is this a digipack, too, in the US? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Jim (or any other of the Americans): is this a digipack, too, in the US? Yep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Jim (or any other of the Americans): is this a digipack, too, in the US? Yep. ← Uh...I got mine from Dusty Groove and it's in a jewelbox. It did say "UK Edition" on the site, though, and the CD itself says "Made In Austria". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Mine's the US edition--digipack. (And I bet I paid less than Jim. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Yeah, but mine's an IMPORT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Unlike the beer in your fridge: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 My fridge is beerless at the moment. But the one on the left is no stranger. It's none too bad for the quick slam, and as a "freebie" on tap at a gig, it's actually nice. The one on the right, however... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Just buy Fosters. It's available here for around $.62 a case and is my favorite refreshment of the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron S Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Just buy Fosters. It's available here for around $.62 a case and is my favorite refreshment of the moment. Chuck, if that decimal point is not a typo, could I possibly get you to send me a few hundred cases? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Just buy Fosters. It's available here for around $.62 a case ← It was a favored beer of mine & some friends back in our collegiate drinking days... often left us feeling very refreshed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted September 27, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Yeah, I, too, have often felt "refreshed" after purging my stomach of all its contents... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connoisseur series500 Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Just buy Fosters. It's available here for around $.62 a case and is my favorite refreshment of the moment. ← Gotta admit that Foster's is one of my current favorites as well. I sometimes get it for $9.99 a 12-pack, but right now I'm paying $11.99. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Fitzgerald Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Happened to come across this - ======================== Jim Hall's first new record in a couple of years, "Jim Hall: Concierto," is a subtle, highly lyrical effort in which he is joined by Chet Baker, Paul Desmond (in just two numbers), Roland Hanna, Ron Carter, and the drummer Steve Gadd. There is a long, fast, inquiring version of "You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To" that is notable for Hall's spare solo, a brief bit of counterpoint between Desmond and Baker, and the first in the album of what turn out to be four first-class Baker solos. Baker has spent much of his career stepping on his own feet and obscuring the fact that, somewhat in Miles Davis's earlier mode, he is an intelligent, affecting player whose solos are often models of design and inflection and phrasing. They have a latter-day Beiderbecke quality. The second side is a fresh and eloquent study of Joaquin Rodrigo's mournful "Concierto de Aranjuez," which has been examined before by Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Quartet. All hands (except the drummer) take forty-two-bar solos, and Baker and Desmond are excellent. And so is Hall, but his guitar is not favorably recorded. He uses a lot of low, reverberative notes, and they get entangled with the bass player, who is over-recorded, and with the pianist; who, though he plays well, is totally unneeded. - Whitney Balliett, Collected Works, p. 456 =========================== Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 I bought several in this series that CTI reissued: Milt Jackson's Sunflower, Freddie Hubbard's Straight Life, Deodato's Prelude, Paul Desmond's Skylark, Stanley Turrentine's Salt Song, and George Benson's Beyond The Blue Horizon. I like them all, and Concierto is definitely a favorite in the bunch. The weakest one I have is Hubert Laws' In The Beginning. Currently in the 'fridge: Sam Adams' Boston Lager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Ah! The elusive elixir...Lone Star Draft. A perennial favorite of me and my crew in our undergraduate days. Cheap...dern tootin'. But we especially liked it because we could ask for it by name...LSD. BTW, in the late '60's, me and my crew were very easily amused. Up over and out. WARNING: THREAD IN DANGER OF BEING HI-JACKED!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Johnson Posted September 27, 2005 Report Share Posted September 27, 2005 Jim Hall's first new record in a couple of years, "Jim Hall: Concierto," is a subtle, highly lyrical effort in which he is joined by Chet Baker, Paul Desmond (in just two numbers), Roland Hanna, Ron Carter, and the drummer Steve Gadd← Someone tell Jazzkat!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcoliv Posted October 16, 2005 Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 based on Claude recommendations i also got the SACD of this great album. the sound is amazing on this one Marcus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Larsen Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 This album came out right around the time I was born. My dad says he used to play it to calm me down and help me sleep. I listened to it again a few years ago and remember thinking it was a little too "slick" and "pretty" for me, but that was when I was heavy in a avant-jazz/noise trip. It may be time to pull out the record again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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