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| Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Seven [ ÉLŐ ] |
| John Hicks |
| első megjelenés éve: 1991 |
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| (1991)
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| 3.726 Ft
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| 1. | Blue in Green
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| 2. | All of You
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| 3. | After the Rain
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| 4. | Speak Low
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| 5. | Blues For Maybeck Recital Hall
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| 6. | Heroes
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| 7. | Rhythm-A-Ning
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| 8. | Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love
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| 9. | Oblivion
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| 10. | Contemplation
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| 11. | Straighten Up and Fly Right
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Jazz
John Hicks - Piano
John Hicks had heard of Maybeck Recital Hall long before he made his debut in the intimate room in August, 1990, to record this, his first solo piano album. JoAnne Brackeen, whose Maybeck album launched this quickly expanding and unprecedented series of solo piano recordings, had raved about the place to Hicks. When he sat down to play, he felt right at home.
Unlike most of the recordings he has made under his own name (ones that feature his compositions), for the Maybeck date, Hicks said, "I wanted to do some more standard compositions. Playing solo gives me a chance to extend my repertoire and play some songs I don't normally play in a group setting. By myself, I can take them in directions you just can't get to when there are other musicians involved.
"For Maybeck," Hicks said, "there were certain things I wanted to record, but really the recording aspect as indicental to the performance. I arrived with a list of songs I wanted to do. But once I started, I picked songs based on the feeling I got from the audience."
Hicks made numerous albums as a leader for various European and American labels, but this remains his most intimate recording, just Hicks at the piano with a warm and responsive audience, in an intimate setting.
* Barbara Fisher - Assistant Engineer
* Bud Spangler - , Remote Recording Coordinator
* Carl Jefferson - Producer
* George Horn - Mastering
* James Gudeman - Photography
* Kent Judkins - Art Direction
* Larry Kelp - Liner Notes
* Nick Phillips - Assistant Producer
* Ron Davis - Assembly, Engineer
* Ronnie David - Engineer
The friendly wood-paneled interior of Maybeck Recital Hall in the Berkeley hills has inspired many pianists to reach beyond their usual limits in the real world outside; after a tentative start, John Hicks latches on tightly to his muse here. He is at his most emotionally affecting in John Coltrane's quietly aching "After the Rain." "Speak Low" takes off on flights of near ecstasy, and he crashes through excitingly convoluted takeoffs on Monk's "Rhythm-A-Ning" and Bud Powell's "Oblivion." Hicks contributes a single rollicking improvisation of his own, "Blues for Maybeck Recital Hall," amidst the program of pop and jazz standards and touching newer material like Billy Childs' "Heroes." Though not a consistently inspired concert, there are several stretches of truly breathtaking piano playing here, beautifully recorded as usual.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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