Jim Hall - Plays Standards (2020)
FLAC tracks | 2:23:15 | 722 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: EG Jazz
In the ultimately rather small club of jazz guitarists, he was an artist of his own, refusing to engage in any pyrotechnics of virtuosity. Jim Hall was even the opposite. A kind of Cantor of purity. One of the greatest Impressionists of his instrument. Never a note too much, all in finesse and silence to better serve the melody, he was the living embodiment of this formula dear to the Anglo-saxons, less is more (the least is the most). A language he will practice alongside giants such as pianist Bill Evans, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, trumpeter Art Farmer, double bassist Ron Carter or singer Ella Fitzgerald … always open to new ideas, Jim Hall will work with his prestigious cadets who will claim his influence such as Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny and John Scofield.