Concerto de Aranjuez

Jim Hall & David Mathews Orchestra, Jim Hall, David Matthews Orchestra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 4, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Evidence
• ASIN: B0000014IS
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #64,731 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Concierto de Aranjuez - Jim Hall, Rodrigo, Joaquin

2. Summerwaltz

3. Red Dragon Fly - Jim Hall, Yamada, Kosaku

4. El Condor Pasa

5. Ara Cruz

6. Chorale and Dance - Jim Hall, Hall, Jim

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hall, Desmond, Baker = awesome., February 23, 2009

By	Richard D. Guba "tenor sax man" (Annapolis MD) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Concierto (Audio CD)

This is a great album. Chet Baker is really good and with his reputation for excessive behavior it is more remarkable. Chet is on his game as is Desmond. Jim Hall is good as expected, but it is the ensemble work with the 2 horn players that makes this exceptional. I like this album much more than Bill Evans' Interplay which is also an ensemble album with Jim Hall. Stereophile magazine has used this album to test speakers and I understand why. It is well recorded and has fine performances. I recommend higly for any fan of Paul Desmond who would like to hear Paul in a group other than the Brubeck quartet. That being said, this is a Jim Hall feature and he is also in great but understated form.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Concierto w/ Jim Hall & Dave Matthews Orchestra, August 27, 2003

By	James (Kailua, HI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Concerto de Aranjuez (Audio CD)

I like this album. I would also recommend Jim Hall's Concierto album with Paul Desmond, Chet Baker, and Steve Gadd. It's an amazing album, but I love the first two cuts on this album, and I would recommend it to anyone. Beautiful orchestration, which I personally like much more than Miles Davis' arrangements of the piece.

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Fluff, April 11, 2010

By	David Thierry "[e-mail]" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Concierto (Audio CD)

This is probably Jim Hall's most famous recording. One reviewer dismissed it as vile fluff. No accounting for taste. Depends on what your preferences are. One of my friends turned me on to this recording and she vastly prefers this to Miles Davis account of Rodrigo's concerto for guitar which I love but gosh I really like this too. One might call this WHITE Jazz. The piano solo ROCKS with deep beauty. There is a very good reason why super models should be walking down a runway to this kind of music. It is the embodiment and personification and epitome of it's time and place. A special moment in musical history of the 20th Century and Gone with the Wind. No one is doing it now.