Jim Hall - Downbeat Critics Choice '2002

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Dream Steps (4:48)
02. Stern Stuff (5:13)
03. Snowbound (6:22)
04. Fanfare (6:57)
05. Quadrologue (4:45)
06. Circus Dance (4:24)
07. Pan-O-Rama (8:32)
08. Furnished Flats (6:57)
09. October Song (6:40)
10. The Wind (6:58)
11. Abstract 3 (5:10)
12. Tango Loco (5:31)

One of the many great things about guitarist Jim Hall is his unparalleled
ability to excel in both a straight-ahead jazz context and in a variety of more
experimental modes, from harmonically challenging avant-garde jazz to playful
adaptations of Caribbean themes and innovative instrumental settings (such as
the trio improvisation with bassist Scott Colley and George Mraz featured on
this album). Halls guitar sound is famously round, soft, and gentle, and yet his
note choices and compositional strategies can be highly difficult. Down Beat
Critics Choice collects 12 tracks from albums Hall recorded for the Telarc label
between 1995 and 2001, and includes some of his most exciting and sophisticated
work, as well as a clunker or two. Among the former are his exquisite
collaboration with guitarist Mike Stern on Stern Stuff, which Hall composed in
Sterns honor and which is based on a Monk-ish, almost atonal theme and yet
features some of Halls most spirited and sweetly swinging solo playing. The
calypso-flavored Pan-O-Rama, which features pianist Geoff Keezer, is another
solid winner, as is the melancholy Snowbound, a duet with accordionist Gil
Goldstein. Circus Dance is just a bit too literal in its development of the
titular theme, and never really gets off the ground. But the high points
outnumber the low ones by a huge margin on this very fine collection.~Rick
Anderson

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