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| 1. | Consolation
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| 2. | Ballad Impromptu
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| 3. | The Long Goodbye
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| 4. | Everytime I Think of You
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| 5. | Song of Home
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| 6. | North
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| 7. | Chris Craft
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| 8. | Idyll
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| 9. | Uncertain Terms
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Jazz
Alan Broadbent - Liner Notes, Piano
Alan Broadbent Trio
Joe La Barbera - Drums
Putter Smith - Bass
* Bruce Burr - Photography
* Dave Fischer - Photography
* David Kreisberg - Engineer
* George Horn - Mastering
* John Burk - Executive Producer
* Nick Phillips - Producer
* Phil Edwards - Mixing
* Sara Morris - Art Direction
Since gaining fame as a member of Charlie Haden's excellent Quartet West, Alan Broadbent has seen his own catalog rise in stature. A welcome development, since a wider audience should check out the many fine recordings this unique pianist/composer/arranger has made. And in spite of the admission that his highly lyrical bent and soft touch come out of the work of Bill Evans, Red Garland, and Nat "King" Cole, among others, Broadbent is able to produce fresh solo conceptions and plenty of original material of his own. In fact, as the title implies, Personal Standards consists almost entirely of self-penned cuts, save for one by bassist Putter Smith. (This seamless piano trio is rounded out by drummer Joe LaBarbera.) Along with material also heard on various Quartet West recordings like "The Long Goodbye" and "Song of Home," the disc features a nice mix of ballads ("Ballad Impromptu"), mid- to up-tempo swingers ("Consolation"), as well as some blues ("Uncertain Terms"). And even though Broadbent favors slow and melancholy numbers, he can still vigorously turn on the technique, especially on the faster numbers here. In addition to his solo piano outing for the Maybeck Recital Hall series, Personal Standards offers a great introduction to Broadbent's work.
--- Stephen Cook, All Music Guide
Alan Broadbent
Active Decades: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Apr 23, 1947 in Auckland, New Zealand
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bop, Post-Bop, Hard Bop
An unsung hero of the acoustic piano, Alan Broadbent is a highly lyrical and melodic bebopper/post-bopper who has cited Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Tommy Flanagan, Nat "King" Cole, and Red Garland as some of his favorite pianists. Raised in New Zealand, he moved to Boston in 1966 to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. After staying on the road with Woody Herman (for whom he was a writer, arranger, and soloist) from 1969-1972, he settled in Los Angeles. Broadbent went on to work as a sideman for Chet Baker, tenor saxmen Warne Marsh and Gary Foster, and the late singer Irene Kral in the '70s, and with Bud Shank and arranger Nelson Riddle in the '80s.
The '90s found him writing arrangements for Natalie Cole, Marian McPartland, Scott Hamilton, and others, and playing alongside bassist Charlie Haden, tenor saxman Ernie Watts, and drummer Larance Marable in Haden's Quartet West -- a unique and conceptual L.A.-based group that is known for including bits of dialogue from film-noir movies between bop performances. Broadbent's excellent trio albums for Discovery in the '80s and Concord in the '90s make it clear that he deserves to be much better known as a soloist.
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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