Jim Hall - Youkali (1992) CD Rip

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Title: Youkali
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: CTI[67226-2]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop
Quality: FLAC (Image + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 54:52
Total Size: 339 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

01. Youkali
02. Django
03. Skylark
04. All Blues
05. Malaguena
06. All Across the City
Jim Hall - Youkali (1992) CD Rip

personnel :

Jim Hall, Chuck Loeb, Ira Siegel - guitar
Grover Washington, Jr. - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Donald Harrison - soprano saxophone
Carmen Cuesta - vocals
Ted Rosenthal - synthesizer, piano
Kenny Barron - electric piano
Sir Roland Hanna - piano
Francisco Centeno, Mark Egan - bass
Dave Weckl, Jimmy Madison, Danny Gottlieb - drums
Lew Soloff, Chet Baker, Byron Stripling - trumpet
Bob Millikan, Larry Lunetta - trumpet, flugelhorn
John Clark - French horn
Jim Pugh - trombone, tenor trombone
Dave Taylor - bass trombone
Keith O'Quinn - trombone
Matt Finders - tuba
Bashiri Johnson - percussion

Guitarist Jim Hall gets the late-period Creed Taylor CTI treatment on the generally rewarding Youkali set. Extensive overdubbing was used so Chet Baker (who died in 1988) magically appears on three of the six selections. Also teamed with Hall on some numbers are Grover Washington, Jr. (on soprano and tenor), Donald Harrison on soprano, the wordless vocals of Carmen Cuesta (on "Youkali"), a brass section, and various other instruments arranged by Jim Pugh and Don Sebesky. Through it all, Hall plays quite tastefully as usual. The six songs ("Youkali" is a lesser-known Kurt Weill tune and Hall composed the moody "All Across the City") are superior, the arrangements work well, and the guitarist makes all of this work quite worthwhile.~Scott Yanow