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Nothing wrong with the performances, but the sound on these tracks reminds me of EMI LPs of the 70s - loads of surface noise which drown out any quiet passages. Impossible to believe these have been taken from Telarc CDs. Look elsewhere if you want these performances.
I got a bit of a shock when I listened to this - many years ago I bought my second serious piece of music: It was this! A flood of emotion came as I recognized the performance. Strange, I thought at the time, how can an American Jazz pianist sound SO English? I still think, after hearing this again, it is one of the best.
Some good music never goes out of style: Jazz fans everywhere revere the cooking hard bop of the 1950s. So why is the other big '50s trend, cool jazz, barely on modern radar? If you want to know how fresh and airy it still sounds, hear trumpeter/composer/arranger/cool exemplar Shorty Rogers on "Popo," "Didi," "Four Mothers" and "Sam and the Lady" from his first 1951 octet session: tightly arranged, swinging jazz with breezy orchestral colors,… more »
