Everything I love

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Everything I love
Studio album by Roland Hanna

Publication
(s)

2002

Label (s) IPO FRecordings

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Modern jazz , postbop

Title (number)

13

running time

1:12:11

occupation

production

William F. Sorin

Studio (s)

SUNY Performing Arts Center, Purchase, New York

chronology
Sir Roland Hanna Plays the Music of Alec Wilder
(1998) 		Everything I love Sir Roland Hanna, Carrie Smith - I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues
(2002)
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Everything I Love is a jazz album by Roland Hanna . The recordings made in June 2002, shortly before Hanna's death, at the SUNY Performing Arts Center, Purchase, New York, were released in November 2002 on IPO Recordings.

background

Sir Roland Hanna was part of a group of pianists that included Hank Jones , Barry Harris , Tommy Flanagan, and Mulgrew Miller . These pianists share an unbridled urbanity and grace, wrote C. Michael Bailey. Each of them drew on different styles and genres before shaping music with its own indelible character. Nowhere is this better to be heard than when, in particular, Sir Roland Hanna appeared solo, as he did with Everything I Love , which was recorded shortly before his death. This album is one of two recordings that Hanna made for IPO Recordings as the first set of three releases.

Hanna's repertoire in Everything I Love consists mostly of standards and reflects his preference for minor keys, noted Doug Ramsey , who promoted his blues tendencies. His Rachmaninoff introduction to “I Hear a Rhapsody” is typical of Hanna's ability to integrate classical techniques without lapsing into the pianistic presentation. With Stephen Sondheim's "Comedy Tonight" he chose a title that jazz musicians rarely tackle.

Track list

  • Sir Roland Hanna: Everything I Love (IPO Recordings - IPOC 1002)
  1. Comedy Tonight ( Stephen Sondheim ) - 3:19
  2. Bags - A Tribute (Roland Hanna) - 5:23
  3. Lullaby of the Leaves ( Bernice Petkere , Joe Young ) - 2:48
  4. I Hear a Rhapsody (George Fragos, Jack Baker, Dick Gasparre) - 6:30
  5. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To ( Cole Porter ) - 5:22
  6. Send in the Clowns (Sondheim) - 4:50
  7. In the Blue of the Evening ( Al D'Artega , Tom Adair ) - 5:26
  8. All Blues ( Miles Davis ) - 5:57
  9. Comes Autumn (Hanna) - 7:18
  10. Embraceable You ( George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) - 6:30
  11. How Deep Is the Ocean? ( Irving Berlin ) - 7:24
  12. Alone Together ( Arthur Schwartz , Howard Dietz ) - 6:45
  13. Ev'rything I Love (Porter) - 4:39

reception

Scott Yanow gave the album four stars in Allmusic and said that Roland Hanna was in a relaxed mood with Everything I Love and immersed himself in a variety of strong melodies. In doing so, he progressed slightly, changing the mood and the tempo enough to maintain his own interest, and showing that he was a masterful interpreter. His solo excursion is a constant pleasure.

Milt Jackson, ca. 1946-1948. Photography by William P. Gottlieb

C. Michael Bailey wrote in All About Jazz that Hanna offers an expansive range of American song canons. With the title track he plays a relaxed Cole Porter interlude and a very ballad-like version of “ You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To ”. The two Sondheim compositions, "Comedy Tonight" and "Send in the Clowns" adorn the package, each played with sensitivity and ingenuity. According to the author, the highlight of the recording is Hanna's own composition "Bags - A Tribute", which is a series of variations on Milt Jackson's " Bags' Groove ". That is exciting and well done. "Sir Roland Hanna left us a lovely love letter in the form of Everything I Love ," Bailey sums up. "We are blessed that he thought of us before he left."

Doug Ramsey said in JazzTimes , "With this collection of 13 songs, Hanna entertains and enlightens with inspiration and an eclecticism that never compromises his ability to get the music to the point."

According to Richard Cook and Brian Morton , who rated the album three (out of four) stars, Everything I Love, like Tributaries: Reflections on Tommy Flanagan, is "a very solid solo release" for Hanna. The highlights of the record include the authors “All Blues”, in which Hanna plays skilful modulations, “Send in the Clowns”, which the pianist gives a very dramatic quality, and the Milt Jackson tribute. All in all, this is a nicely recorded album "with a rich and faithful piano sound."

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b C. Michael Bailey: Sir Roland Hanna: Everything I Love. All About Jazz, February 9, 2003, accessed March 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Doug Ramsey: Sir Roland Hanna: Everything I Love. JazzTimes, April 25, 2019, accessed March 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sir Roland Hanna: Everything I Love at Discogs
  4. ^ Review of the album at Allmusic (English). Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  5. ^ Cit. Cook & Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz. Edition 2006, p. 588 f.