Bob Brookmeyer

****Downbeat
This edition presents the complete Brookmeyer album Traditionalism Revisited, featuring Jimmy Giuffre and Jim Hall.
As a bonus, three songs that complete the sessions which were absent from the original LP, as well as two rare live tracks recorded by Brookmeyer, Giuffre and Hall during a TV show.

Bob Brookmeyer (v-tb, p), Jimmy Giuffre (cl, ts, bs), Jim (g), Joe Benjamin (b, on 1-2, 4-7 & 11) Ralph Peña (b, on 3 & 8-10), Dave Bailey (d). ew York, July 13 (t1-2, 4-7 & 11) & July 16 (3 & 8-10), 1957.

[12-13] Bonus Tracks:
Bob Brookmeyer (tb), Jimmy Giuffre (cl, ts, bar), Jim (g). “Stars of Jazz” KABC Show, Hollywood, October 27, 1958.

“This is a project dear to my heart, the taking of older jazz tunes and jazz associated tunes and allowing them full scope in the hands of modern musicians. I have often wondered why this has not been done before.” (Ralph J. Gleason)

1. Louisiana
2. Santa Claus Blues
3.Truckin’
4. Some Sweet Day
5. Like This
6. Ja Da
7. Don’t Be That Way
8. Honeysuckle Rose
9. Brook’s Blues*
10. Slow Freight*,
11. The Sheik Of Araby* 12. Express,
13. Down Home

Total Time: 71:57

Tracks [9, 10, 11] Not on the original LP