The Jimmy Giuffre 3 / The Music Man

The Music Man (Related Recordings), Jimmy Giuffre | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00000IJSZ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,979 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gotta Dance

2. Two Kinds Of Blue

3. The Song Is You

4. Crazy She Calls Me

5. Voodoo

6. My All

7. Thats The Way It Is

8. Crawdad Suite

9. The Train And The River

10. Iowa Stubborn

11. Goodnight My Someone

12. Seventy-Six Trombones

13. Marian The Librarian

14. My White Knight

15. The Wells Fargo Wagon

16. It's You

17. Shipoopi

18. Lida Rose (Will I Ever Tell You)

19. Gary, Indiana

20. Till There Was You

Editorial Reviews

audio cd - jazz genre - 2 albums made into 1 cd all by jimmy giuffre (key player) does both traditional, avante garde and in case of 2nd album covers broadway score.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My first Jimmy disc, and it is sure a winner..., May 30, 2008

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I first started to listen to jazz in the early '60's as I was finishing high school and trying to get into a college. I recall that Jimmy Giuffre, (who died earlier this year) was always well-respected in the jazz polls published in Hugh Hefner's magazine, but I never bought one of his LP's. Recently I found this one on Amazon and took the plunge. These two records, one from 1957 and the other done a year later, are wonderful. On the first, Jimmy plays baritone sax, tenor sax and the clarinet, sometimes all on the same track. The songs have a folk/blues feel. In fact, one track "The Train and the River" is said (although not in these liner notes) to have been inspired by Giuffre's friendship with Cisco Houston, my favorite folksinger and Woody Guthrie's best friend. I know a lot about Cisco, who died in 1961, but I never had known of his acquaintance with jazzmen. Playing with Jimmy on this half of the CD is the great Jim Hall on guitar and Ralph Pena on bass. The whole thing is very pleasant, but my favorite is probably their version of "The Song is You." The second record is Jimmy's jazzy meditation on the tunes from my favorite American musical, Meredith Willson's "The Music Man." This is fun all the way. Jimmy chose a medium size group for a jazz record, consisting of three trumpets, three saxes, bass, drums, and his own three horns. Highlights here include "Goodnight My Someone" and "My White Knight" and "Till There Was You" in addition to the more familiar "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Wells Fargo Wagon." If you are not familiar with Jimmy Giuffre's work, but you like jazz, folk and musicals, you can't regret buying this two-fer before it goes out of print. This is great stuff to use to soothe your ears during a 90-minute drive, or a three-hour journey if you want to play it twice.