Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 731451489822
EAN: 0731451489822
ASIN: B0000046NL
Release Date: 1994-04-23
Upon Reflection: The Music of Thad Jones
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Hank Jones
Label: Polygram Records Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 731451489822 EAN: 0731451489822 ASIN: B0000046NL Release Date: 1994-04-23 |
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A delicate memorial.......2000-03-19
I've often found Hank Jones a little too tasteful & immaculate to be absorbing (see, e.g. _Steal Away_, a disc that starts off terrifically but by the end is sunk by its ponderous seriousness); but this disc is a big exception. The emotional atmosphere of the disc is tender & gentle, but it's intellectually satisfying too: Jones's playing is as closely-argued as can be imagined.
The other great pleasure of the disc is hearing Elvin Jones play brushes for the duration: while that doesn't mean thunder is absent (see the ending explosion of the opening track, with Jones growling ferociously), you do get to hear how subtle & tasteful Elvin can be. "A Child Is Born" is turned into a drum feature, & surprisingly, it works beautifully.
What can I say? This disc has been generally unsung: but it deserves to be recognized as one of the great memorial albums, one of the great trio albums...one of the great Hank Jones albums.
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