Hank Jones Complete Recordings CD - Import

This release features 2 brilliant interpretations of Broadway Revues by the grandfather of the Detroit piano school, Hank Jones. Leading a piano/guitar quartet that included guitarist Barry Galbraith, bassist Arnold Fishkin and drummer Don Lamond, Jones entered a New York studio on January 31, 1958 to record Lerner & Loewe's classic film score 'Gigi'. This edition also includes a second Hank Jones led piano/guitar quartet studio date recorded in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on October 19, 1963 featuring an all-star band with guitarist Kenny Burrell, bassist Milt Hinton and drummer Elvin Jones. This time, the group recorded Meredith Wilson's 'Here's Love', a musical adaptation of the legendary Yuletide film Miracle On 34th Street. Gambi. 2005.

This collection finds the Hank Jones Quartet peforming jazz interpretations of the classic Broadway musicals GIGI and HERE'S LOVE.
Personnel: Hank Jones (piano); Kenny Burrell, Barry Galbraith (guitar); Don Lamond, Elvin Jones (drums).
Recording information: Englewood Cliffs, NJ (01/31/1958/10/19/1963); New York, NY (01/31/1958/10/19/1963).
Authors: George Shearing; Hank Jones ; Nat King Cole.
Although pianist Hank Jones gets first billing on this two-disc set from Lone Hill Jazz, it actually contains three complete Tyree Glenn-led sessions that were originally released on LP by Roulette Records as At the Embers, At the Roundtable and At the London House in 1957, 1958 and 1961. Featuring Glenn on trombone and vibraphone running through swing and bop standards backed by a world-class rhythm section of Jones, Milt Hinton and Jo Jones, Quintet/Sextet Complete Recordings makes a fine introduction to an often over-looked and completely professional jazz player. Among the highlights are Glenn's own "After the Rain" (not to be confused with the later John Coltrane composition by the same title), a jaunty "I Wanna Be Loved," and a shimmering vibraphone turn at "Limehouse Blues." ~ Steve Leggett