The Zone: Live at the Yardbird Suite
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| Live album by Hal Galper | ||||
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| Label (s) | Origin Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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58:46 |
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Hal Galper, Jeff Johnson & John Bishop |
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Studio (s) |
Club Yardbird Suite, Edmonton, Alberta |
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The Zone: Live at the Yardbird Suite is a jazz album by the Hal Galper Trio with Jeff Johnson (bass) and John Bishop (drums). The recordings were made on November 26, 2016 at the Yardbird Suite jazz club in Edmonton, Alberta. They were released on November 5, 2019 on Origin Records .
background
The live album includes an interpretation of John Carisi's composition "Israel" , which Mike Joyce believes was partly inspired by the playing style of pianist Bill Evans , and a short cover version of the vintage R&B hit "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite" by 1953 as the final number. Halper also played his own original composition, "Scufflin '".
Track list
- Hal Galper Trio - The Zone: Live at the Yardbird Suite (Origin Records - ORIGIN 82793)
- Israel (John Carisi) 8:46
- Kiwi (Jeff Johnson) 8:32
- Cubist (Jeff Johnson) 7:16
- Artist (Jeff Johnson) 11:10
- Scene West (Jeff Johnson) 14:14
- Scufflin '(Hal Galper) 7:23
- Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite (Calvin Carter / James Hudson) 1:25
reception
The album received consistently positive reviews; Chris Spector wrote on the Midwest Record that Galper is still a forward-thinking pianist and one of the greats who can teach young people how to make great jazz.
According to Dan McClenaghan, who reviewed the album on All About Jazz and rated it 4½ (out of 5) stars, Galper's recordings for Origin Records since Furious Rubato (2007) represent his quest for the perfection of the elastic tempo approach known as Rubato style is called. And one could credibly say that perfection has been achieved. The Zone: Live st the Yardbird Suite captures Galper in what is perhaps the most fascinating phase of his career for Origin. The album is one of a series of eight albums over a period of twelve years which - viewed as a whole - represent a great and innovative achievement that rounds off the career of the pianist [born in 1938].
Mike Joyce said in JazzTimes that it doesn't often happen that experienced jazz musicians only find one of their own recordings to be really revealing afterwards; the album at hand is an impressive example. As Hal Galper recalls in his liner notes , he had no intention of releasing this live trio session from 2016 until he heard a playback and asked himself, “ Who is this pianist? “It is difficult to imagine that Galper supporters or jazz piano trio fans in general would object to the decision to release the album. Galper may have been surprised by what he later discovered in these seven pieces, but the joy he was getting from the concert at the moment was consistently unmistakable and understandable.
Web links
- Information about the album at Origin Records
- Listing of the album on Allmusic (English). Retrieved January 11, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mike Joyce: Hal Galper Trio: The Zone: Live At The Yardbird Suite. JazzTimes, January 8, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Hal Galper Trio - The Zone: Live at the Yardbird Suite
- ↑ Hal Galper Trio: The Zone: Live At The Yardbird Suite. Midwest Record, November 9, 2019, accessed January 11, 2020 .
- ^ Dan McClenaghan: Hal Galper Trio: The Zone: Live At The Yardbird Suite. All About Jazz, November 19, 2019, accessed January 11, 2020 .