Jim Hall Trio - St. Thomas

Jim Hall Trio live;'BIMHUIS', Amsterdam (Holland)10-10-2007. Playing Sonny Rollins' St. Thomas.

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Music

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• Jim
• Hall
• Jazz
• St.
• Thomas
• Bimhuis

[jazzgtrplayer]

Jazz isn't a competition. Jim Hall's musical concept is completely different from the people you named, just as Coltrane's was different from Django's. He might not win on technical skill, but his harmonic awareness is second to none and that's why Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins, Pat Metheny and others have recorded with him.

[pak087]

the changing of keys is intentional...jus in case you didn't figure that much out...

[niggerfuckshitreborn]

@jazzgtrplayer dont forget paul desmond.

[ahaaaaaaaaah]

Penny Lane!

[lexo30]

@jazzgtrplayer I'm not defending a stupid comment, but you could argue that Parker, Coltrane and Sun Ra were a familiar kind of jazz musician in that they were innovators whose work took some time to become accepted (Sun Ra's work is still not exactly mainstream). Django was a phenomenon. Blakey was a great musician and bandleader but not someone who pushed back the boundaries of jazz - hard bop is a retreat from bebop. Hall is, I think, a great if subtle innovator, and technically brilliant.

[ubernaffa]

@nathanalexander28 I could be wrong, but I am fairly sure that Barney Kessel was the first guitarist to record without a pianist.

[nathanalexander28]

hell yeah.. jim hall was the FIRST guitarist to be featured on a jazz album as the only comping (accompanying) instrument, playing chords behind the soloist. (no piano)

it was sonny rollins "the bridge". just sonny on sax, jim on guitar, drums and bass....

so think twice before you bash jim ;)

[hjerthinfarkht]

Is he using an octave-pedal? Pretty cool :)

[davnkatz]

My jazz group is learning this and instructor told me to work up a bass solo - not just bass line. This is great 'cause clearly shows bassist progress od sound. No way can I play this good, but it gives me something solid to work on. Thanx

[wurlitzer90]

YEAH Geoff Keezer on piano!!! 

[HendrixcommaMartin]

I think they really capture the essence of this song better than most people do. It's such a simple form that many people just want to rip on it, but these guys really make a song of it. Someone before mentioned Jim's guitar with the octave pedal sounding like steel drums; I don't know if that was intentional or not, but the description is dead on, and this performance really does evoke the Caribbean.

[bela2ives]

@b1llybrown it is whammy.not a hog the still great pedal.