Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Four Brothers from Jimmy Giuffre
2. Someone To Watch Over Me from Jimmy Giuffre
3. Sultana from Jimmy Giuffre
4. A Ring-Tail Monkey from Jimmy Giuffre
5. Nutty Pine from Jimmy Giuffre
6. Wrought Of Iron from Jimmy Giuffre
7. Do It! from Jimmy Giuffre
8. All For You from Jimmy Giuffre
9. Iranic from Jimmy Giuffre
10. I Only Have Eyes For You from Jimmy Giuffre
11. Scintilla I from Tangents In Jazz
12. Finger Snapper from Tangents In Jazz
13. Lazy Tones from Tangents In Jazz
14. Scintilla II from Tangents In Jazz
15. Chirpin' Time from Tangents In Jazz
16. This Is My Beloved from Tangents In Jazz
17. The Leprechaun from Tangents In Jazz
18. Scintilla III from Tangents In Jazz
19. Rhetoric from Tangents In Jazz
20. Scintilla IV from Tangents In Jazz
21. The Train And The River (Bonus Tracks from The Sound Of Jazz)
22. Blues (Bonus Tracks from The Sound Of Jazz)

Disc 2:

1. Gotta Dance from The Jimmy Giuffre 3
2. Two Kinds Of Blues from The Jimmy Giuffre 3
3. The Song Is You from The Jimmy Giuffre 3
4. Crazy She Calls Me from The Jimmy Giuffre 3
5. Voodoo from The Jimmy Giuffre 3
6. My All from The Jimmy Giuffre 3
7. That's The Way It Is from The Jimmy Giuffre 3
8. Crawdad Suite from The Jimmy Giuffre 3
9. The Train And The River from The Jimmy Giuffre 3
10. Blues In E-Flat from Historic Jazz Concert At Music Inn
11. In A Mellotone from Historic Jazz Concert At Music Inn
12. The Quiet Time from Historic Jazz Concert At Music Inn
13. Body And Soul from Historic Jazz Concert At Music Inn

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10373 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-28
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
Born in Dallas Texas in 1921 Jimmy Giuffre started his career arranging for Woody Herman's big band. His main instrument was the clarinet but he also played the flute, tenor and alto saxophone. Acknowledged as one of the leaders in the West Coast Cool Jazz scene of the 1950's AVID Jazz here presents four classic Jimmy Giuffre albums on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.
`Jimmy Giuffre'; `Tangents In Jazz'; `The Jimmy Giuffre Three' and `Historic Jazz Concert At Music Inn' display Giuffre's style which moved from what he called `blues based folk jazz' to a more intimate and rhythm less form of free jazz dubbed `chamber jazz'. A style that would be taken up later and with incredible success by the German based ECM label. In fact Giuffre would later record for them with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow.
As tribute to Giuffre who died two days short of his 87th birthday on April 24th 2008. AVID are proud to add his name to their growing AVID Jazz catalogue.
All four albums have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!

Customer Reviews

Hmmm...Nice!
It is perplexing how under-rated Jimmy Giuffre is. He played in similar settings, at times, to that other great baritone sax player Gerry Mulligan, although Giuffre also played clarinet and tenor sax.

He used a number of settings but only occasionally with piano. His range went from, what ultra conservative jazz pundits like Wynton Marsalis call, real blues based jazz to more loose, less rhythmic free chamber jazz, of which Giuffre was a pioneer. This latter style of jazz became the staple of the German based, highly influential and successful ECM record label. Giuffre later recorded for that label with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow with whom he previously recorded his classic Free Fall album for Columbia.

There are many gems here that are worth checking out and I will not go through them here, I love The Train and the River from The Jimmy Giuffre 3 album although I have to say that the live version on the Jazz on a Summer's Day soundtrack album has a slight edge on the original.

This package is a fine tribute to a man who was a true great of jazz and I have no hesitation in recommending it.

Cool = Jimmy Giuffre + VFM
It is hard to believe that such fresh sounding jazz is in fact 55 years old. Amongst the many beautiful sounds on all 35 tracks on the two albums in this set I liked the interplay between a cool Jimmy Giuffre and an erratic but inspired Pee Wee Russell on "Blues in E Flat". As all the best reviewers say "Thoroughly Recommeded".