This outstanding 4-CD box set contains the complete studio trio recordings of Jimmy Giuffre and Jim Hall - collected on a single set for the very first time. The first track of the current edition, (“Gotta Dance”, recorded on December 3, 1956), is in fact their first collaboration ever and the start of many future collaborations.Includes the complete original albums: “The Jimmy Giuffre 3”, “Trav’lin’ Light”, “The Four Brothers Sound”, “Western Suite”, “7 Pieces”, “The Easy Way” - plus 8 tracks which never appeared on LP.
As a bonus, there are two unaccompanied Giuffre tracks from the same sessions and a batch of rare live trio recordings, including “Song of the Wind”, which appears here on CD for the first time ever.
The third voice of the trio was usually a bass (many bassists alternated on their trio projects, including Ray Brown, Ralph Peña, Jim Atlas, Red Mitchell and Wilfred Middlebrooks) or a trombone (mostly Bob Brookmeyer, who sometimes switched from the valve trombone to the piano). (Discovery Records)
Price: £26.99
