Jimmy Giuffre

Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Steve Swallow - Fly Away Little Bird (1992) Reissue 2002

Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley, Steve Swallow - Fly Away Little Bird (1992) Reissue 2002
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 298 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 187 Mb | Scans included
Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Modal Jazz | Label: Sunnyside | # SSC 3504 | 01:16:39

Why aren't there more recordings like Fly Away Little Bird? Perhaps it's because there aren't more musicians of this stature. The studio reunion of the legendarily experimental Jimmy Giuffre 3 in 1992 was reissued in 2002 on the French Sunnyside label and is a radical departure from anything the trio had done in the past. These studio apparitions of the band are their most seamlessly accessible while being wildly exploratory. In addition to the consummate improvisations and compositions by Giuffre (title track, a redone "Tumbleweed"), the tender meditations by Steve Swallow ("Fits" and "Starts"), and the bottom-register contrapuntal improves by Paul Bley ("Qualude"), this is a trio recording that uses standards such as "Lover Man," a radically and gorgeously reworked "I Can't Get Started," "Sweet and Lovely," and "All the Things You Are" to state hidden textural possibilities inside chromatic harmony. There is never the notion of restraint in the slow, easy, and proactive way these compositions are approached.

Jimmy Giuffre - Jimmy Giuffre (1954) [Reissue 2005]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 24, 2023
Jimmy Giuffre - Jimmy Giuffre (1954) [Reissue 2005]

Jimmy Giuffre - Jimmy Giuffre (1954) [Reissue 2005]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 115 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 83 MB | Covers - 78 MB
Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Original Long Play/Membran Music (OLP #5, 222970-203)

Controversial, misunderstood, and underappreciated, Jimmy Giuffre was an unlikely candidate to break as much ground as he did in the art of free improvisation. A swing orchestra veteran, Giuffre made his name as part of the West Coast school of cool jazz, but his restless creative spirit drove him to push the boundaries of texture, dynamic shading, counterpoint, and improvisational freedom in surprisingly avant-garde ways, despite maintaining a cool, cerebral exterior.

Jimmy Giuffre - Tangents In Jazz (1956) [Reissue 2005]  Music

Posted by gribovar at Jan. 24, 2023
Jimmy Giuffre - Tangents In Jazz (1956) [Reissue 2005]

Jimmy Giuffre - Tangents In Jazz (1956) [Reissue 2005]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 87 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 81 MB | Covers - 83 MB
Genre: Jazz, Cool Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Original Long Play/Membran Music (OLP #6, 222971-203)

This unusual set has Jimmy Giuffre (on clarinet, tenor and baritone) in a pianoless quartet with trumpeter Jack Sheldon, bassist Ralph Pena and drummer Artie Anton. The music (all but one of the ten numbers are by Giuffre) puts an emphasis on cool tones and relaxed improvising, hinting at folk themes but sounding quite modern for the time.
Jimmy Giuffre - Music For People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes (Remastered) (1973/2023) (Hi-Res)

Jimmy Giuffre - Music For People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes (Remastered) (1973/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24bit-44.1kHz - 466 MB
44:49 | Free Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Contemporary Jazz | Label: Candid

After a string of two dozen brilliant albums beginning in the 1950's, clarinetist, saxophonist, flutist, composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre stopped recording - For nearly ten years he focused solely on live performance - This album, Music for People, Birds, Butterflies and Mosquitoes, marked his return to the studio after his self imposed hiatus. Known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, Giuffre began his career as an arranger for Woody Herman's big band in the late 1940s. Playing primarily saxophone, he became a central figure in the West Coast cool jazz scene of the 1950's, with the Lighthouse All Stars in Hermosa Beach, CA. In the late 50's, he began working within different configurations of the trio format, on what he called "blues-based folk jazz." A prime example being his piece "The Train and the River" famously featured in 1958 Newport Jazz Festival concert film, Jazz On A Summer's Day.
Jimmy Giuffre - Music For People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes (Remastered) (1973/2023)

Jimmy Giuffre - Music For People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes (Remastered) (1973/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 241 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 MB
44:49 | Free Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Contemporary Jazz | Label: Candid

After a string of two dozen brilliant albums beginning in the 1950's, clarinetist, saxophonist, flutist, composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre stopped recording - For nearly ten years he focused solely on live performance - This album, Music for People, Birds, Butterflies and Mosquitoes, marked his return to the studio after his self imposed hiatus. Known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, Giuffre began his career as an arranger for Woody Herman's big band in the late 1940s. Playing primarily saxophone, he became a central figure in the West Coast cool jazz scene of the 1950's, with the Lighthouse All Stars in Hermosa Beach, CA. In the late 50's, he began working within different configurations of the trio format, on what he called "blues-based folk jazz." A prime example being his piece "The Train and the River" famously featured in 1958 Newport Jazz Festival concert film, Jazz On A Summer's Day.

Jimmy Giuffre - Touch (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Nov. 11, 2020
Jimmy Giuffre - Touch (2020)

Jimmy Giuffre - Touch (2020)
FLAC tracks | 1:35:40 | 451 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Nagel heyer records

Controversial, misunderstood, and underappreciated, Jimmy Giuffre was an unlikely candidate to break as much ground as he did in the art of free improvisation. A swing orchestra veteran, Giuffre made his name as part of the West Coast school of cool jazz, but his restless creative spirit drove him to push the boundaries of texture, dynamic shading, counterpoint, and improvisational freedom in surprisingly avant-garde ways, despite maintaining a cool, cerebral exterior.Born in Dallas in 1921, Giuffre studied music at North Texas College and subsequently played tenor sax in an Army band; upon his discharge, he took jobs with orchestra leaders like Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, and Buddy Rich. In 1949, he joined up with Woody Herman, for whom he'd penned the classic composition "Four Brothers" two years earlier. He then moved to the West Coast, where he learned clarinet and baritone sax, and played with groups like Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars and Shorty Rogers' Giants. Giuffre began leading his own sessions in 1954, with groundbreaking albums like Four Brothers and Tangents in Jazz exploring bluesy folk-jazz and third stream fusions.

Jimmy Giuffre - Jimmy Giuffre 3, 1961 {2CD ECM 1438/39 rel 1992}  Music

Posted by ruskaval at April 19, 2018
Jimmy Giuffre - Jimmy Giuffre 3, 1961 {2CD ECM 1438/39 rel 1992}

Jimmy Giuffre - Jimmy Giuffre 3, 1961 {2CD ECM 1438/39 rel 1992}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 379 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 215 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 37 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1961, 1992 ECM Records | ECM 1438/39
Jazz / West Coast Jazz / Modal Music / Third Stream / Clarinet

This reissue of Fusion and Thesis, the two albums the new Jimmy Giuffre 3 made in 1961, prior to their breakthrough and breakup in 1962, is nothing short of a revelation musically. Originally produced by Creed Taylor, who was still respectable back then, the two LPs have been complete remixed and remastered by ECM proprietor and chief producer Manfred Eicher and Jean Philippe Allard and contain complete material from both sessions resulting in one new track on Fusion and three more on Thesis.
Jimmy Giuffre - The Four Brothers Sound (1958) {2013 Japan Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series 24bit WPCR-27267}

Jimmy Giuffre - The Four Brothers Sound (1958) {2013 Japan Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series 24bit WPCR-27267}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (image)+CUE+LOG -> 190 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 72 Mb
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 70 Mb | 5% repair rar | 24bit remaster
© 1958, 2013 Warner Japan / Atlantic / Rhino | WPCR-27267 | Jazz Best Collection 1000 Series
Jazz / Cool / Tenor Saxophone

Features 24 bit digital remastering. Comes with a description. On this interesting LP, Four Brothers Sound refers to the four overdubbed tenor saxes Giuffre uses throughout the session. The effect is similar to that achieved by Bill Evans on his similar effort, Conversations With Myself. The chief differences between the two might be this: where Evans layered wholly different improvisational lines to the same changes, Giuffre generally sticks to ensemble work. Also, Evans was the only performer on his set, while pianist Bob Brookmeyer and guitarist Jim Hall join Giuffre on several cuts.
Lee Konitz - Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre (1951-1959) {2CD Set Verve 527 780-2 rel 1996}

Lee Konitz - Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre (1951-1959) {2CD Set Verve 527 780-2 rel 1996}
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© 1951-59, 1996 Verve / PolyGram | 527 780-2
Jazz / Cool / Bop / Saxophone

This unusual two-CD set not only reissues the original LP of the same name but three other rare Verve LP's from the 1950's. Altoist Lee Konitz (on "An Image") is showcased during a set of adventurous Bill Russo arrangements for an orchestra and strings in 1958, pops up on half of Ralph Burns' underrated 1951 classic Free Forms (the most enjoyable of the four sets) and meets up with baritonist Jimmy Giuffre, whose arrangements for five saxes (including the great tenor Warne Marsh) and a trio led by pianist Bill Evans are sometimes equally influenced by classical music and bop.

Jimmy Giuffre, Andre Jaume - Eiffel (1988)  Music

Posted by v3122 at Nov. 28, 2018
Jimmy Giuffre, Andre Jaume - Eiffel (1988)

Jimmy Giuffre, Andre Jaume - Eiffel (1988)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
CELP, C6 | ~ 144 or 94 Mb | Artwork(jpg) -> 55 Mb
Avant-Garde, Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation

5This is the first of a pair of recorded live dates between reedmen Jimmy Giuffre and André Jaume – the other one was recorded a few months later at Willisau and released on Hat. Where the latter date focuses on Giuffre's compositions and duet improvisation, this one is its mirror image: a concert dedicated to the music of Jaume and duo improvs…