Vic Juris Plays Victor Young

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Vic Juris Plays Victor Young
Studio album by Vic Juris

Publication
(s)

2016

Label (s) SteepleChase Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Modern jazz , postbop

Title (number)

11

occupation
chronology
Walking on Water
(2014) 		Vic Juris Plays Victor Young Eye Contact
(2018)

Vic Juris Plays Victor Young is a jazz album by guitarist Vic Juris . The recordings were made in March 2014 and were released in 2016 on SteepleChase Records .

background

Starting with Roadsong (1978), Vic Juris recorded a number of albums under his own name until 2018. In March 2016 Juris recorded both the trio album Blue (with Jay Anderson and Adam Nussbaum ) and the album Vic Juris Plays Victor Young . On the last track (“My Foolish Heart”) the band leader switched from the semi-resonance guitar to the acoustic steel-string guitar and accompanied the singing of his wife Kate Baker, who had also performed in the 55 bar .

Track list

  • Vic Juris - Vic Juris Plays Victor Young (SteepleChase - SCCD 31829)
  1. Love Letters (Victor Young, Edward Heyman ) 7:20
  2. Street of Dreams (Victor Young, Sam M. Lewis) 5:44
  3. Stella by Starlight (Victor Young) 6:19
  4. Johnny Guitar (Victor Young, Peggy Lee ) 7:58
  5. A Weaver af Dreams (Victor Young, John Elliott) 6:05
  6. My Foolish Heart (Victor Young, Ned Washington ) 6:27
  7. When I Fall in Love (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) 8:55
  8. Golden Earrings (Victor Young, Ray Evans , Jay Livingston ) 5:04
  9. Beautiful Love (Wayne King, Victor Young, Egbert Van Alstyne, Haven Gillespie) 6:37
  10. (I Don't Stand a) Ghost of a Chance (with You) (Victor Young, Ned Washington, Bing Crosby ) 7:33

reception

For Andy Hamilton, who reviewed the album in the Jazz Journal , Plays Victor Young (2017) and the subsequent album Eye Contact (2018) showed "the art of jazz guitar of the superlatives." According to Derek Taylor (Dusted) some of Young's pieces are Part of the Juris repertoire for years and are valued for their variable form and variability of the harmonic content. Juris varies predictable parameters of his playing by engaging in a duet with bassist Jay Anderson ("Beautiful Love"), drummer Anthony Pinciotti ("Stella By Starlight") and singer Kate Baker ("My Foolish Heart").

Howard Mandel wrote on Down Beat , “ Vic Plays Victor Young is a sensitive, melodically exploring album with standards and rare cover versions , as you would expect from an experienced ensemble with a compatible repertoire. Juris is deceptively cautious and, alone and in cooperation, brings out the dreamy melancholy of Young's subjects. His flawless touch of both the electric and acoustic instruments, his brilliant tone, the gracefully swinging beat and the elegant phrasing as well as the modesty of the album - no extreme size, just dedicated creativity. "Each piece seems as intimate as the interpretation of " My Foolish Heart " by guest singer Kate Baker, on which she is only supported by the guitarist.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 1, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b Derek Taylor: Vic Juris - Plays Victor Young (Steeplechase). Dusted, January 6, 2017, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Michael J. West: Vic Juris 1953-2019 - Cancer claims a humble master of the jazz guitar at 66. JazzTimes, January 5, 2020, accessed on January 5, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Vic Juris - Vic Juris Plays Victor Young at Discogs
  5. ↑ Andy Hamilton: Vic Juris: Two Guitars. Jazz Journal, August 9, 2019, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  6. ^ Howard Mandel: ic Juris: Vic Plays Victor Young. Down Beat, May 1, 2017, accessed January 7, 2020 .