Master Class

Hank Jones, Red Garland | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 17, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: 32. Jazz Records
• ASIN: B000005BEL
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,866 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Yardbird Suite

2. Confirmation

3. Ruby, My Dear

4. Relaxin' with Lee

5. Bloomdido

6. 'Round Midnight

7. Moose the Mooche

8. Monk's Mood

9. Algo Bueno

10. Anthropology

11. Sippin' at Bells

12. Blue Monk

13. Groovin' High

14. I Mean You

15. Jackie-Ing

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This CD combines two excellent LPs from the late 1970s, with Jones taking a scintillating trip through the compositional legacy of bop, focusing on tunes by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk. Bop Redux, the earliest of the recordings, is a trio with bassist George Duvivier and drummer Ben Riley. Groovin' High has four tracks by a stellar quintet with Thad Jones (Hank's brother) on cornet, tenor saxophonist Charlie Rouse, bassist Sam Jones (no relation), and drummer Mickey Roker. Sam, Thad, and Rouse recorded "I Mean You" and "Jackie-ing" together with Monk on 5 by Monk by 5, and it's fascinating to hear them cover the same tunes with so different a pianist. These musicians were all distinguished veterans when these dates were recorded, and the results are exemplary bop, played with invention and an almost casual precision. --Stuart Broomer

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be bop master class, April 23, 2003

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Jazzcat "stef" (Genoa, Italy Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Master Class (Audio CD)

This album is nothing less than a master class in bebop improvisation. Hank Jones has so much talent, chops, musicality that be bop seems an easy language in his hands. This style of music is so vital after 60 years. Modal, free, third stream, avant garde, fusion things didn't thrown a bit dust on this music. The genius of Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell (and I could continue for hours...) is immortal. If you want to know what bebop is about, and how to play it with true musicality, just listen to this album (they're two actually packed in one cd). It's a late seventies album, but the flame was still alive. And still it is ....
Listen, and listen, and listen, and listen, and listen again..........