Jimmy Giuffre

• 4-CD SET

• INCLUDES 8 BONUS TRACKS

• 24-PAGE BOOKLET

This release contains the complete studio recordings by the different Jimmy Giuffre trios with Jim Hall. As a bonus, two unaccompained Giuffre tracks from the same sessions and a batch of rare live trio recordings, including "Song of the Wind", which appears here on CD for the first time ever.

PERSONNEL:

• JIMMY GIUFFRE, carinet, tenor and baritone sax
• JIM HALL, guitar
• On all tracks, plus:

• RALPH PEÑA
• JIM ATLAS
• RED MITCHELL
• RAY BROWN
• or WILFRED MIDDLEBROOKS, bass
• or BOB BROOKMEYER, valve trombone

Recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Lenox and Chicago between 1956-1959.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS:
• CD 4 [10-11]: Jimmy Giuffre (four unaccompained overdubbed tenor sax lines)
• New York, June 23, 1958.
• CD 3 [10] & CD 4 [12-17]: Live trio recordings 1957-1959.

TRACKS:

• CD ONE:
• 01. Gotta Dance
• 02. The Train and the River
• 03. The Song Is You
• 04. Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
• 05. That's the Way It Is
• 06. Two Kinds of Blues
• 07. Crazy She Calls Me
• 08. Bob Russell / Carl Sigman
• 09. My All
• 10. Crawdad Suite
• 11. Voodoo
• 12. Trav'lin Light
• 13. Johnny Mercer
• 14. The Lonely Time
• 15. Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down
• 16. The Green Country
• 17. The Swamp People
• 18. Show Me the Way to Go Home
• 19. Irving King
• 20. Forty-Second Street
• 21. California -Here I Come
• 22. The Train and the River

• CD TWO:
• 01. Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down
• 02. The Green Country
• 03. The Lonely Time
• 04. Trav'lin' Light
• 05. Johnny Mercer / James Mundy / James Oliver Young
• 06. Forty-Second Street
• 07. Show Me the Way to Go Home
• 08. Irving King
• 09. The Swamp People
• 10. California -Here I Come
• 11. I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
• 12. Space
• 13. Cabin in the Sky
• 14. Memphis in June
• 15. Hoagy Carmichael / Paul Francis Webster
• 16. Four Brothers
• 17. Old Folks
• 18. Dedette Lee Hill / Willard Robison
• 19. Blues in the Barn
• 20. Topsy

• CD THREE:
• 01. Blue Monk
• 02. Thelonious Monk
• 03. Western Suite: Pony Express/Apaches/Saturday Night Dance
• 04. Happy Man
• 05. Princess
• 06. Song of the Wind
• 07. Lovely Willow
• 08. The Little Melody
• 09. The Story
• 10. Time Machine
• 11. Pony Express

• CD FOUR:
• 01. Ray's Time
• 02. The Easy Way
• 03. Time Enough
• 04. Come Rain or Come Shine
• 05. Montage
• 06. Mack the Knife
• 07. Bertolt Brecht / Kurt Weill
• 08. A Dream
• 09. Off Center
• 10. Careful
• 11. Jim Hall
• 12. Come Rain or Come Shine
• 13. Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
• 14. Ode to Switzerland
• 15. The Train and the River
• 16. Gotta Dance
• 17. Four Brothers
• 18. Two Kinds of Blues
• 19. Song of the Wind
• 20. Down Home