13 Strings

Howard Alden, Howard Alden & George Van Eps | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 16, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B0000006JT
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #298,745 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Just You, Just Me

2. My Ideal

3. I Hadn't Anyone Till You

4. A Beautiful Friendship

5. The Touch of Your Lips [*]

6. Ain't Misbehavin'

7. Too Marvelous for Words

8. Love Walked In

9. Queerology

10. How Long Has This Been Going On?

11. Mine

12. Embraceable You

13. Emaline

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Van Eps Master of the Archtop!, November 17, 2009

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R. W. Born "Wade" (Toledo ,Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 13 Strings (Audio CD)

Actually,contrary to the info in the other review,you can tell who is playing what.Listed in the liner notes....Van Eps: LEFT of Center...Alden: RIGHT of Center.EXCELLENT CD! Quartet,Duo & SOLO recordings! Snatch the copy for $16.00! Hard To Find.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High quality mellow electric archtop jazz, May 18, 2008

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stephenghowe "stephenghowe" (Frederick, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 13 Strings (Audio CD)

Eps is one of the all time great jazz guitarists, probably the greatest as far as chords go. (He is no longer with us, but his recordings are, hence the present tense.)

I've had this album a long time, I play it for anybody and they know its good. Great cocktail music (not that I or anyone else I know drinks those). The down side is, I can't tell who is doing what, and the whole idea is to have a recording of the great George Van Eps. However, it all has classic non-warhorse standards performed with that great mellow Eps electric archtop sound, great chording and good soloing. If you are looking for something good to add to your collection, you won't go wrong with this. Caveat: I know little about Eps' reputedly classic but historically hard to get solo recordings, nor their present availability; I'm just writing this because there was no review and I happen to know this one's worth having.