Jimmy Giuffre Essentials

Jimmy Giuffre Essentials

From the ‘40s until his death in 2008, reedist Jimmy Giuffre quietly revolutionised the sound of jazz. He originally wrote his swinging standard “Four Brothers” in 1947 when he was a member of Woody Herman's Big Band, but on his own he pursued a singular strain of chamber jazz, often dispatching drums to underline a sublime kind of melodic interplay. His late-‘50s trio with guitarist Jim Hall conveys buoyant joy on “The Train and the River”; a different lineup from 1961 featuring pianist Paul Bley established a pensive beauty that melded the openness of free jazz with pin-drop quietude on Carla Bley's exquisite “Jesus Maria”.

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