Bireli Lagrene - Standards (1992) Flac

Tracklist

1. C'Est Si Bon
2. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise
3. Days of Wine and Roses
4. Stella by Starlight
5. Smile
6. Autumn Leaves
7. Teach Me Tonight
8. Donna Lee
9. Body and Soul
10. Ornithology
11. How Insensitive (Insensatez)
12. Nuages

personnel :

Biréli Lagrène : guitar
André Ceccarelli : drums
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen : bass

This is one of guitarist Bireli Lagrene's better jazz albums of the 1990s. By this time he had pretty much discarded his original Django Reinhardt influence (even on "Nuages" he sounds nothing like Reinhardt) and he took time off from playing rock to perform a dozen familiar standards with bassist Niels Pedersen and drummer Andre Ceccarelli. Lagrene's technique had been admirable from the start and on this studio session his own musical personality was allowed to come to the surface. Highlights include "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise," "Autumn Leaves," "Donna Lee" and "Ornithology."~Scott Yanow