Ray Brown Trio - Live At Scullers (1997)

Tracklist

1 Freddie Freeloader 6:58
2 En Estate 7:18
3 You're My Everything 4:16
4 But Not For Me 9:31
5 Bye Bye Blackbird 10:29
6 If You Only Knew 13:04
7 Whirlybird 3:31

Recorded live at Scullers Jazz Club, Boston Massachusetts, October 17-18, 1996

personnel :

Bass – Ray Brown
Drums – Gregory Hutchinson
Piano – Benny Green

Staying young by working with the young, Ray Brown and cohorts Benny Green (piano) and Gregory Hutchinson (drums) laid down a set of jazz and pop standards at a club in a Boston Double Tree Hotel. Though Brown is the leader and anchor of the date, quite obviously the pianist is going to dominate the act -- and Green definitely puts on a show, wiping everyone out with the pyrotechnics of "You're My Everything," engaging in a gentle stride opening to "But Not for Me," and coming logically to a bombastic climax. Hutchinson is capable, swinging, and occasionally volatile, and Brown mostly steps back and gives these guys a firm underpinning, with a sly solo now and then ("Bye, Bye Blackbird.") There are few surprises or deviations from the mainstream here, but a good time will be had by anyone who gives this a spin.~Richard S. Ginell