Night And The City

Amazon.com Except for applause at the end of a couple of tunes and a single quiet cough, you might not be aware you're listening to a club recording, so hushed is the Iridium audience during this quietly intense 1996 musical dialogue between Kenny Barron and Charlie Haden. The ballad conversations are so intimate that it's almost inappropriate to break them up into the constituent players, but Barron is magnificent, opting for single-note lines over Haden's deeply resonant bass, stringing out a continuum of inventive, often double-time phrases that animate the slowest tempos. Even the chromatic fantasia that introduces the luminous "Very Thought of You" is spare. With Haden, less is more; there's never an unnecessary note, never a superfluous phrase. His accompaniments consist of only the barest harmonic substructure and the minimal pulse, while his solos sing as unadorned melody. Each piece is given time to unfold (the seven selections last 70 minutes), and the results are quietly intense, sometimes exalted, music-making. It's fine late-night listening, in the city or anywhere else. --Stuart Broomer Product Description Charlie Haden has created some of his most profound successes in a series of duet albums on Verve (Steal Away with Hank Jones and Beyond the Missouri Sky with Pat Metheny have earned acclaim from critics and massive sales at retail). Haden and pianist Kenny Barron (each top award winners in 1997s' Down Beat Critics Poll) are featured on this live album, recorded at New York's Iridium. Expect Top 10 airplay on the Gavin and CMJ jazz charts, where both are considered core artists. Review Pianist Barron's art seems to grow deeper with each passing year.... Haden, by contrast, seems to have grown more concise.... Haden and Barron each contribute a tune to the standards that are the main course here: "Body and Soul" belies its well-earned chestnut status, and "You Don't Know What Love Is," though the shortest selection here, glistens. -- Jazz Times
ASIN: B0000069NK
VSKU: DBV.B0000069NK.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Charlie Haden & Kenny Barron
Binding: Audio cd
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