Live at Maybeck 12 [Live]

Barry Harris | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B0000006K1
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,006 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. It Could Happen to You

2. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm

3. She

4. Cherokee

5. Gone Again

6. Lucky Day

7. It Never Entered My Mind/Meet the Flintstones/I Love Lucy

8. Would You Like to Take a Walk?

9. I'll Keep Loving You

10. Parker's Mood

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful solo performance from a master, July 15, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Live at Maybeck 12 (Audio CD)

Anyone who has had the pleasure of listening to Barry Harris live, or fortunate enough to catch him on Marian McPartland's "Piano Jazz" radio series will know how much depth, knowledge, chops, and joy he brings to the music world. The Maybeck concert catches Harris in a similarly comfortable setting. His touch on ballads, his bop treatments on the tempos, evoke Bud Powell---but Harris is his own man. Only Harris could take "Meet the Flintstones" and "I Love Lucy" and transform them into lush romantic ballads.

5.0 out of 5 stars a classic solo outing from Barry Harris, December 20, 2011

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This review is from: Live at Maybeck 12 (Audio CD)

That Barry Harris opened his Maybeck Recital Hall appearance with a beautiful treatment of "It Could Happen to You," reveals alot about the diverse talent of this great pianist, who was noted more for his bop orientation than for playing ballads. Harris charges into a Monkish rendition of "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" and follows this with another ballad, "I'll Keep Loving You" which then segues into "She," with just the slightest hint of stride. There's a beautiful symmetry to Harris's program and to his playing too, which is full of subtleties - and surprises. Take the medley on the eighth track, which opens with a melting "It Never Entered My Mind," segues into the themes from "Meet the Flintstones" and then "I Love Lucy." Nothing is overstated or overplayed - just wonderful stuff.

Five stars!