| Product Summary | | Label: Savoy Jazz Records | | UPC: 00795041732323 | | Release Date: 3/23/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 60624507 | | Item#: MWQPV6 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Round Midnight - Hank Jones ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. September Song - Erroll Garner ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Indiana - Lester Young/Count Basie ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Have You Met Miss Jones - George Shearing ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Long Tall Dexter - Dexter Gordon/Bud Powell ~ Various Artists | | | 6. Willow Weep For Me - Cannonball Adderley/Horace Silver ~ Various Artists | | | 7. Falling In Love With Love - Eliane Elias ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Lady Is A Tramp, The - Marian McPartland ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Night And Day - Billy Taylor ~ Various Artists | | | 10. Supersonic - Lennie Tristano ~ Various Artists | | | 11. D&E - Modern Jazz Quartet/John Lewis ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Flower, A - Kenny Barron ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is part of Savoy's Giants Of Jazz series. | | Concentrating on lyrical and elegant playing that alternately evokes cocktail bars and concert halls, Giants of Jazz: Piano features some of the best players to ever tickle the ivories. The 12 cuts are mostly piano trios, with Horace Silver, Bud Powell, and John Lewis showing up on group cuts from Cannonball Adderley, Dexter Gordon, and the Modern Jazz Quartet, respectively. Lennie Tristano shows up with the most challenging piece of the collection, "Supersonic," whose singular approach to the piano stands out even among the top-shelf company he is nestled in with on this disc. Ballads get excellent treatment from Erroll Garner with "September Song" and Hank Jones with "'Round Midnight." Most of the performances, however, are rousing uptempo numbers like Marian McPartland's boisterous reading of "The Lady Is a Tramp." Little is provided in the way of group information or why these particular cuts were chosen and the sound quality is sometimes lacking -- several of the cuts are live, too, but listeners will only discover this after digging in with their ears. Those are trifling quibbles, really, since this is intended as an introduction to the style and some of the players who make mainstream jazz swing. As such, it does a fine job. ~ Wade Kergan |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/01/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2004 | | Catalog ID : 17323 | | Label : Savoy Jazz (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00795041732323 |
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