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4.0 out of 5 stars
Return to the trio, but not looking back, June 28, 2011
This review is from: Magic Meeting (Audio CD)
Hall's most widely heard works are from the 60's (notably, his sideman gigs with Paul Desmond, Sonny Rollins, Art Farmer, and others) and his records from the 70's and 80's (particularly the "Live!" record and the studio sessions on Concord). In the 90s's and 00's his tone and technique changed a bit, and this is documented well on his sessions for Telarc and other labels. This ArtistShare session with the classic guitar trio lineup that he has mostly not recorded with since the 80s is something of a mixture of these two phases of his career. Tone-wise, he has not gone back to the warm, dark sound of "Live!" or "Circles" (which was unmistakeably the tone of an electric pickup, albeit one with the higher frequencies attenuated), but has instead remained true to his later signature tone, which is lighter (more natural high frequencies, fewer midrange frequencies), a bit thinner, sometimes colored by electronic effects (something that sounds like a chorus pedal, for the benefit of gearheads), and technique-wise, he's still a bit freer than he was in the 60's-80's, more apt to leave tonality behind and also to get deeper into rhythmic variations. The influence of ECM records and strands of free jazz (both of which he influenced back in the 50s as a sideman for Jimmy Guiffre) are apparent.
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