Allen Farnham - Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 41 (1996)

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Artist: Allen Farnham
Title: Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 41
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: Concord Jazz[CCD-4686]
Genre: Jazz, Post Bop, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 63:24
Total Size: 240 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01. In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck) - 6:38
02. Waltz for Debbie (Evans) - 7:44
03. The Carpal Tunnel Blues (Farnham) - 4:48
04. Maybeck Sketch No.1 (Farnham) - 4:43
05. I Get a Kick Out of You (Porter) - 7:13
06. Never Let Me Go (Evans-Livingston) - 6:01
07. Witch Hunt (Shorter) - 6:11
08. Maybeck Sketch No.2 (Farnham) - 5:36
09. I Hear a Rhapsody (Gasparre-Fragos-Baker) - 5:14
10. Twilight World (McPartland) - 5:19
11. Lover (Rodgers-Hart) - 3:57

personnel :

Allen Farnham - piano

Volume 41 of the long-running Maybeck Recital Hall series finds Allen Farnham trying his hand at the solo piano game and scoring well in this all-revealing format. While employing many of the devices that Maybeck followers have come to know and expect -- the bop-centered foundation, the Tatum interjections, outbreaks of stride, the Bill Evans-influenced harmonies, a few classical borrowings -- Farnham uses them in a more musical, affecting way than most. Listen to the sly, elegant way in which he slips into the closing bars of "I Hear a Rhapsody"; the man has taste and a sense of structure. In addition to a handful of standards -- including an "In Your Own Sweet Way" with allusions to Brubeck's chordal manner and a nice "Waltz for Debby" -- Farnham contributes a couple of interesting improvisations entitled "Maybeck Sketches, No. 1" and "No. 2," and a sardonic reminder of the malady that threatens all keyboardists, "The Carpal Tunnel Blues."~Richard S. Ginell

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