Live at Maybeck 7 [Live]

John Hicks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Concord Records
• ASIN: B0000006J9
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #164,695 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blue In Green

2. All Of You

3. After The Rain

4. Speak Low

5. Blues For Maybeck Recital Hall

6. Heroes

7. Rhythm-A-Ning

8. Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love

9. Oblivion

10. Contemplation

11. Straighten Up And Fly Right

Editorial Reviews

pianist john hicks solo at maybeck. post bop, pianist.

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hick's best piano album, June 11, 2000

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Joel Slutzki (Tel Aviv , Israel) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at Maybeck 7 (Audio CD)

John Hicks at his best , this album represents the skills techniques & the will to share the joy of music with the listener. no doubt this maybeck album is one of the best performances in this beautiful location. one of the best John Hicks piano performances if not the best.

2.0 out of 5 stars disappointing, January 4, 2012

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This review is from: Live at Maybeck 7 (Audio CD)

I don't know whether John Hicks was nervous for his Maybeck recital, or if this represents his solo piano style, but in either case the results are disappointing especially in view of the high expectations set by the playing on his beautiful tribute album to Billie Holiday (Lover Man: Tribute to Billie Holiday). The central problem with Hicks' Maybeck outing is that it suffers from such an an over-abundance of ideas that it completely lacks focus. Compounding this is Hicks' blending of styles, as if he's decided to throw everything into the recipe and that the final product will come out sounding like the work of a creative genius. Consequently, each song is a collision course of musical thoughts and styles, a shifting from one to the next within a matter of seconds. Not one song truly comes together; even Monk's "Rhythm-A-Ning," which is one of the two or three things that starts out promisingly, devolves into an non-cohesive mishmash.

The usually enthusiastic Maybeck Hall audience is understandably tentative this time around.

Avoid.

0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Maybeck series are all great!, February 13, 2009

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Arnie Fox (PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at Maybeck 7 (Audio CD)

I have almost all of the Maybeck Recital series and they are all great!
Arnie Fox-author of "Compendium of Over 2000 Jazz Pianists".