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Western Suite 180gr LP

Jimmy Giuffre (cl, ts, bs); Jim Hall (g); Bob Brookmeyer (tb)

Format: 1LP 33rpm / standard sleeve
Release date: 28.08.2015
Manufacturer: Pure Pleasure
Original label: Atlantic
Genre: Pop
Recording: Stereo
Pressing: 180g

In late 1957, jazz saxophonist, clarinetist,
composer, and iconoclast Jimmy Giuffre broke up
the original Jimmy Giuffre 3 with Ralph Pena and
Jim Hall. In early 1958, for a recording session,
he formed a new trio without a rhythm section. For
the album 'Trav'lin' Light', his new trio
included Hall on guitar and the underrated
trombone giant Bob Brookmeyer. For a year, they
gigged together up and down the West Coast and
played summer festivals, recorded, and even played
clubs in New York. They became a trio of
adventurous musicians for whom form was not an
obstacle to creativity. As the year wound down,
Giuffre wanted to document the trio once more,
sensing its life was coming to an end. He composed
the four-movement 'Western Suite' with the trio's
strengths in mind, as a way of documenting how
they had come together as a band during that year.
The piece itself stands as a crowning achievement
in a career that included discovering the talents
of Steve Swallow and Paul Bley and making the
truly revolutionary recording 'Free Fall' for
Columbia three years later. The roots of that
thinking lie in this set. Jim Hall's playing was
dark, funky, ambiguous, sounding like drums and
voices all at the same time -- particularly in the
fourth movement. Brookmeyer became the pace
setter. His lines were played as stage settings
for the other two players to dialogue and narrate
against. Giuffre, ever the storyteller, advanced
the improvisation angle and wrote his score so
that each player had to stand on his own as part
of the group; there were no comfort zones. Without
a rhythm section, notions of interval,
extensions, interludes, and so on were out the
window. He himself played some of his most
restrained yet adventurous solos in the confines
of this trio and within the form of this suite. It
swung like West Coast jazz, but felt as ambitious
as Copland's 'Billy The Kid'. The record is
filled out with two other tunes, one of Eddie
Durham's, 'Topsy', and the final moment of mastery
this band ever recorded, the already classic
'Blue Monk'. The easy stroll of the front line
with Brookmeyer's trombone strutting New Orleans'
style is in sharp contrast to Giuffre's clarinet
playing. Which carries the bluesy melody through
three harmonic changes before he solos and then
plays three more. Hall keeps it all on track, and
somehow the piece sounds very natural this way,
though unlike 'Monk', there are no edges here --
everything is rounded off. This is as solid as any
of the earlier or later Jimmy Giuffre 3 records,
and two notches above 'Trav'lin' Light' in that it
reveals a fully developed sense of the
responsibilities, possibilities, and freedoms of
reinventing jazz for the trio.

Recording: 1958 by Heinz Kubicka, Herb Kaplan, and
Tom Dowd
Production: Nesuhi Ertegun

Kat.č.: PP 1330  (LP - vinyl), Pure Pleasure , cena: 849.00 Kč, EAN: 5060149622278 skladem: 0ks, expedujeme do 2-40 dnů