Album starts with a solo composition of Jimmy, called "So Low" while he is keeping the beat by tapping his feet on the floor. It’s a typical Giuffre piece: abstract, free, relaxed, folkloric and mostly playing in the lower register.
In the second tune, “Deep Purple” (composed by Mitchell Parish & Peter De Rose), Jimmy Rowles plays Celesta, an instrument from the piano family with a sound so close to children's music boxes. With Giuffre's tender accompany it really turns to a pleasant lullaby.
If you want to know how eager was Giuffre in exploring new territories in jazz, you must listen to a tune by him written for three flutes (Buddy Collette, Bud Shank & Harry Klee) and drums (Shelly Manne), called “The Side Pipers”. Also another example of a reconstructive approach to standards is evident in a odd interpretation of “My Funny Valentine” with Ralph Pena on Bass, Maury Berman on Bassoon, Dave Pell on English horn and Bob Cooper on Oboe. Can you name another artist with such a bizarre instrumentation in the hay days of Cool-mania and west coast craze? It’s not strange that Giuffre couldn’t find a producer or a label to record for, at least for ten years since his most daring and most avant-garde experiments in west coast music.
The concepts of endowing standards with the new rhythmic and harmonic ideas blossoms in “Fascinatin' Rhythm”, with master Shelly on drum and Jimmy Rowles doing his magic on piano.
Another Jimmy Giuffre Compositions, “Quiet Cook” belongs to the realm that Giuffre was eager to extend during the next decade. An atonal approach to jazz in trio, duo or solo, with or without a usual rhythm section. This is also the key concept of another piece in the album, “The Sheepherder” (Comp. by Giuffre) that consists of three Clarinets.
One of my favorite tunes in this albums is “Down Home” (By Giuffre), a relaxed and rich piece, so much in the tradition of cool music of the west coast, with three trumpet masters, Harry Edison , Jack Sheldon and Shorty Rogers.
I found it a key album to appreciate Giuffre’s music and an early effort of all those west coast cats to modernize their good old jazz.
--Ehsan Khoshbakht
A1 So Low 2:47
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
A2 Deep Purple 4:36
Celesta - Jimmy Rowles
Composed By - Mitchell Parish , Peter De Rose
A3 The Side Pipers 5:06
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
Drums - Shelly Manne
Flute - Buddy Collette
Flute [Alto] - Bud Shank
Flute [Bass] - Harry Klee
A4 My Funny Valentine 5:07
Bass - Ralph Pena
Bassoon - Maury Berman
Composed By - Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart*
English Horn - Dave Pell
Oboe - Bob Cooper
B1 Quiet Cook 4:17
Bass - Ralph Pena
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
Drums - Stan Levey
B2 The Sheepherder 5:22
Bass Clarinet - Harry Klee
Clarinet [Alto] - Buddy Collette
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
B3 Fascinatin' Rhythm 4:03
Composed By - George Gershwin
Drums - Shelly Manne
Piano - Jimmy Rowles
B4 Down Home 5:42
Baritone Saxophone - Maury Berman
Bass - Ralph Pena
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
Drums - Stan Levey
Tenor Saxophone - Bob Cooper , Dave Pell
Trumpet - Harry Edison , Jack Sheldon , Shorty Rogers
...
Teatro Adriano, Rome, Italy , June 19 - 1959
*intro by Norman Granz
Jimmy Giuffre - Clarinet & Tenor Sax
Jim Hall - Guitar
Buddy Clark - Bass
these Rome live gigs are GREAT! many more.....
Album starts with a solo composition of Jimmy, called "So Low" while he is keeping the beat by tapping his feet on the floor. It’s a typical Giuffre piece: abstract, free, relaxed, folkloric and mostly playing in the lower register.
In the second tune, “Deep Purple” (composed by Mitchell Parish & Peter De Rose), Jimmy Rowles plays Celesta, an instrument from the piano family with a sound so close to children's music boxes. With Giuffre's tender accompany it really turns to a pleasant lullaby.
If you want to know how eager was Giuffre in exploring new territories in jazz, you must listen to a tune by him written for three flutes (Buddy Collette, Bud Shank & Harry Klee) and drums (Shelly Manne), called “The Side Pipers”. Also another example of a reconstructive approach to standards is evident in a odd interpretation of “My Funny Valentine” with Ralph Pena on Bass, Maury Berman on Bassoon, Dave Pell on English horn and Bob Cooper on Oboe. Can you name another artist with such a bizarre instrumentation in the hay days of Cool-mania and west coast craze? It’s not strange that Giuffre couldn’t find a producer or a label to record for, at least for ten years since his most daring and most avant-garde experiments in west coast music.
The concepts of endowing standards with the new rhythmic and harmonic ideas blossoms in “Fascinatin' Rhythm”, with master Shelly on drum and Jimmy Rowles doing his magic on piano.
Another Jimmy Giuffre Compositions, “Quiet Cook” belongs to the realm that Giuffre was eager to extend during the next decade. An atonal approach to jazz in trio, duo or solo, with or without a usual rhythm section. This is also the key concept of another piece in the album, “The Sheepherder” (Comp. by Giuffre) that consists of three Clarinets.
One of my favorite tunes in this albums is “Down Home” (By Giuffre), a relaxed and rich piece, so much in the tradition of cool music of the west coast, with three trumpet masters, Harry Edison , Jack Sheldon and Shorty Rogers.
I found it a key album to appreciate Giuffre’s music and an early effort of all those west coast cats to modernize their good old jazz.
--Ehsan Khoshbakht
A1 So Low 2:47
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
A2 Deep Purple 4:36
Celesta - Jimmy Rowles
Composed By - Mitchell Parish , Peter De Rose
A3 The Side Pipers 5:06
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
Drums - Shelly Manne
Flute - Buddy Collette
Flute [Alto] - Bud Shank
Flute [Bass] - Harry Klee
A4 My Funny Valentine 5:07
Bass - Ralph Pena
Bassoon - Maury Berman
Composed By - Richard Rogers & Lorenz Hart*
English Horn - Dave Pell
Oboe - Bob Cooper
B1 Quiet Cook 4:17
Bass - Ralph Pena
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
Drums - Stan Levey
B2 The Sheepherder 5:22
Bass Clarinet - Harry Klee
Clarinet [Alto] - Buddy Collette
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
B3 Fascinatin' Rhythm 4:03
Composed By - George Gershwin
Drums - Shelly Manne
Piano - Jimmy Rowles
B4 Down Home 5:42
Baritone Saxophone - Maury Berman
Bass - Ralph Pena
Composed By - Jimmy Giuffre
Drums - Stan Levey
Tenor Saxophone - Bob Cooper , Dave Pell
Trumpet - Harry Edison , Jack Sheldon , Shorty Rogers
...
Teatro Adriano, Rome, Italy , June 19 - 1959
*intro by Norman Granz
Jimmy Giuffre - Clarinet & Tenor Sax
Jim Hall - Guitar
Buddy Clark - Bass
these Rome live gigs are GREAT! many more.....
