Hank Jones - Urbanity (1997)

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Artist: Hank Jones
Title: Urbanity
Year Of Release: 1997
Label: Verve[314 537 749-2]
Genre: Jazz, Bop, Swing
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 54:04
Total Size: 250 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1. Thad’s Pad (Henry “Hank” Jones) – master take 2:56
2. Things Are So Pretty in the Spring – master take 3:38
(Hank Jones-Helen Jones-Churchill Harris)
3. Little Girl Blue (Richard Charles Rodgers-Lorenz Milton Hart) 2:45
4. Odd Number (Hank Jones) 3:30
5. Blues for Lady Day (Hank Jones) 2:41
6. The Night We Called It a Day (Matt Dennis-Tom Adair) 3:20
7. Yesterdays (Jerome David Kern-Otto Harbach, b. Otto Abels Hauerbach) 3:03
8. You’re Blase (Ord Hamilton-Bruce Sievier) 3:06
9. Tea for Two (Vincent Millie Youmans-lrving Caesar) 3:00
10. The Blue Room (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart) 2:42
11. Thad’s Pad – alternative take 3:00
12. Thad’s Pad
Index 1 -false start :12
Index 2 – incomplete take :19
13. Thad’s Pad – alternative take 2:58
14. Things Are So Pretty in the Spring (Harris, Jones, Jones)
Index 0 – false start :14
Index 1 – alternative take 3:59
15. Things Are So Pretty in the Spring
Index 1 – breakdown :10
Index 2 – breakdown :19
Index 3 – breakdown :47
Index 4 – breakdown 2:01
16. Things Are So Pretty in the Spring – alternative take 3:36
17. Things Are So Pretty in the Spring – alternative take 3:39

personnel :

Hank Jones - piano
Johnny Smith - guitar
Ray Brown - bass

Recorded in 1947 and 1953.

Pianist Hank Jones' first LP consists of six piano solos from 1947 and four trio numbers (with guitarist Johnny Smith and bassist Ray Brown) from 1953. This CD reissue from 1997 has all of that music, plus numerous alternate takes and false starts on a pair of the 1953 Jones originals ("Things Are So Pretty In the Spring" and "Thad's Pad"). Particularly on the unaccompanied solos, Hank Jones shows off the influence of Art Tatum, while the trio cuts are more boppish and sometimes recall the King Cole Trio. Excellent music, although the added alternates (the many stop-and-start versions of "Things" go on for over 14 minutes) can get a bit tedious at times. ~ Scott Yanow

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