『 Concierto de Aranjuez 』 Album Title 「 CONCIERTO 」(1975) 【Artist】 Jim Hall (G) Roland Hanna (P) Ron Carter (B) Steve Gadd (DS) Chet Baker (TP) Paul Desmond (AS)
You're right. I only listened to this track for the first time this morning. Now around midnight I felt the need to listen to it for the umpteenth time.
now i am 50 , first time i listen that before 4-5 days , i will be happy to listen that at my 93, i wish for you many healthy years and nice music every day
I'm 85 years old and I don't need to use profanity to describe my feeling or appreciation for God given talents and ability.......I love jazz and this is absolutely one I of the best.
After listening to this more than a hundred times i must say this is the monalisa of music. the great art. the highest level. truly masterpiece. at first i just loved some part and don't really like the rest. but after listening to it many time it changed me. the least part became my most loved part. the more you listen the more you understand the whole story and it was perfect in every note and perfect from start to the end.
@@Suggsonbasshow should i explain i mean at the very basic this song combine classical and jazz, two most highest level music known to mankind. And yes you have to listen to the original song to understand it better before you switch to these one. But it is like you already know the story of concierto de aranjuez through joaquin rodriguez for a very longtime, suddenly there is someone else (jim halll and the band) come to you and tell you actually what you know about concierto de aranjuez all this year is just a surface of it. They know something that no one know about the real story of concierto de aranjuez. Even the founder of it joaquin didn’t know about the real story. So let me and my man tell you the real story. They left you in a kind of shock you know. Because all this year your heart is so confirm that what you recieve from joaquin is ‘the story’. But now you know that the real story is more sad, so emotional, so intense. That’s how i describe about this song. By the way sorry for my bad english😂
Being a classical music fan, I am very well acquainted with Rodrigo and Concierto de Aranjuez. It is a beautiful piece Rodrigo wrote and the second movement, according to his wife, was written with an undertone of his thoughts about their honeymoon and her miscarriage of their first child. That actually perfectly explains the beauty and the sadness of this piece. The first time I heard Jim Hall's version of this piece was when I was on my way home from work and it came on the radio (WDCB). A couple of minutes after the opening, I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the arrangement, despite having listened to the original numerous times. I pulled into a parking lot so that I could listen to the piece undisturbed and without any distractions. By the middle of this recording I was sobbing, not only because I was enjoying the beauty within, but also thinking about Rodrigo's state of mind. Jim hall did a magic arrangement of this piece and it'll live forever in my head until I die. Having said all this, my biggest beef with this recording is that I believe the bass is out of tune. I never noticed it until I listened to it loudly on proper speakers, but either the bass is out of tune (first noticeable at 3:39-3:54), or Carter is moving his finger up the string before the note's over. It's a bit annoying now that I have heard it and takes a little effort to look past it and not look for it through the rest of the piece, but nevertheless the piece remains amazing still.
Ok I heard it for the first in 1981, I often say,if I had to pick one sound out of my entire jazz collection.......well there you are!, Simply beautiful on every level.
Bought this master piece in 1975 while living in San Francisco and spent many nights in the city inspired. Paul, Chet and Sir Roland take it to an unworldly musical level..... truly inspirational musicians.........RIP: Paul, Chet and Roland.
KLP... Thank U for hipping me to ARTIST. I digs ♻️🌱💚 SENT / SHARED 🎶 track touched soul's vision. The Album is smashing. Peace be still... I listen as I step from royal bath to lay in glory w/o a care... painting a picture as IMAGINATION carries... take-off collaboratively, energetically... And, yes, I duly, enjoyed. 🎶
I think the best complement I can give a song is this: the first time I heard it, the next day I went to the record store and bought it. Around 30 years later, it still sounds fresh and I continue to hear new things.
1945 My aunt passed on to me three boxes of 78s..belonging to her son a jazz and big band enthusiasts..KIA at the Battle of the Bulge, May 1945..He would allow me to spin the discs,I became addicted,a high in the superlative wonders of this music called Jazz..Thank You,Cousin Lawrence..you yet live on in my surroundings of the music you introduced me to..You would be amazed of today's sounds via playback machines. (2019)
I'll never forget how absolutely smitten I was the first time I heard this, in a record store in Portland. I bought the record on the spot and still listen to it regularly 37 years later.
I first heard this wonderful piece of music on KKGO 105.1 in Los Angeles while I was on my way home from work. I turned my car around and drove to the now defunct Music City at Sunset and Vine. I purchased the vinyl album that I replaced over and over. I still have one album, cassette and CD. I listen to Concierto at least once a week and have for 39 years. Mr. Hall, where ever you are, thank you so much.
A truly astonishingly beautiful song piece. I found this song when my father played it for my grandfather as he was dying. It makes my eyes well up every time I hear it.
Also, Sir Roland Hannah on piano, brilliant as everyone else on this timeless classic, the best interpretation of "Concierto de Aranjuez." Steve Gadd shows why he never lacked for work, the cat just lays down a groove perfectly in sync with Ron Carter and Sir Roland Hannah. One of Desmond's best solos, ever, ethereal and moving.
It is heartwarming to read these comments. Jim was unsure about recording this piece because he felt it was perfect as written - but I'm so glad he did. The guys were all sort of mesmerized while playing it. jane
Dear Jane Hall, thank you for sharing this insight with the world. I so share your gladness that your dear late husband recorded this exquisite piece. The image of all the musicians being mesmerised really explains the uniquely cohesive and hypnotic feel to it. It's as if the same spirit was playing all the parts simultaneously, so much that they all seem to be collectively entranced. A beautiful image. Peace.
Oh, what beautiful stuff. To me the highlight is Roland Hanna's solo. Ron Carter's bass is so wonderfully responsive and supportive of the soloists, Steve Gadd's laid-back drumming is perfect, Paul Desmond is so plaintive, Chet Baker so dreamily beautiful. One of my ten favorite jazz recordings.
Desert Island Disc! Three masters of West Coast Jazz subtlety. All three were totally unique. No one else sounded like any of them. Of all the wonderful guitarists, none played with such tasteful creative beauty in so many contexts. In person he was the epitome of self-effacement and humility. A true, one-of-a-kind genius!
I was fotunate enough to see Jim hall perform at the Blue Note in New York back in seventy or eighty something. I'll cary that with me for the rest of my life.
Jim Hall was the best guitarist of all time-we should all be grateful we were alive when this man was with this world-an absolutely tremendously talented man and a very humble classy gentleman-it was very sad to learn of his passing.We know that he is up in heaven sitting on the lord's stage and making everybody happy and playing concerts with John Coltrane,Antonio Carlos Jobim,Duke,Loiue and Mingus.I am sitting here in tears writing this-Jim Hall was such an influence on my life and in my taste in Jazz-the legend of legends.-JAMES STANLEY HALL-(December 4th 1930-December 10th 2013)-Gone but never forgotten....
Recorded and produced by the CTI jazz label. This is a 1975 Jim Hall recording by CTI records, created by the great record producer Creed Taylor, who prior to CTI created Impulse records, of the famed John Coltrane recordings. Hall's Concierto is now celebrating it's 40th anniversary of this recording. During the 60's and 70's some of the best jazz ever was recorded on the CTI jazz label. The songs on Hall's Concierto recording were arranged by the great CTI arranger Don Sebesky, and the recording engineer was the very well known Rudy Van Gelder.
As thoughtful and warm a prescense as has ever been on the guitar.....a gentle genious who left us a lifetime of music to enjoy forever anytime....what a gift Jim Hall was to our world!
Wow I am new to this track and I am blown away by how much this track influenced pat metheny when this came out in 1975. They use 4ths to make a lot of dreamy space and break beautifully from minor I-IV-V. They tinker with the 4th in other ways too. Pat is known to have experimented with 4ths early on and you can hear it all over Bright Size Life, PMG album, Watercolors and more. Not to mention Jim Hall's playing style as soloist and comp
What a great lineup on this date. Desmond, Baker, Roland Hanna!!! Hall is the man!! Brilliant masterpiece of a recording. I have always loved this record and my affection has not diminished with time.
It is sublime; but for me, everything about this album is perfection; the music of course, but the cover of the vinyl LP is also the perfect package to complement the music, from the photography of Pete Turner to the wonderful liner notes of Leonard Feather. Rediscovering the joys of good old-fashioned 12" LPs.
I'm 86 and started my love for jazz with the late 40s R&B i.e. Lonnie Johnson and others then went to Stan Kenton, George Shearing and Johnny Smith and Stan Getz with Moonlight in Vermont and have been hooked ever since.
Google translates what was in japanese i guess: Paul I have respect in your way of thinking about the essence of your life Jazz, I am a member of course the greatest super sessions and super groups, but the leaders JIMs are dead and sad. This Aranjuez remains forever and can be heard anytime, where I like C Baker, where his solo ends, turning into a piano's R Hana's solo, my personal aesthetics, beautiful aloof I just feel a sense of melody. Takashi Sakuda
Sounds like we were on the same track...interesting! I'm 88 and started my love of this music when I was 13. Unfortunately I did not hear this fascinating piece of music until a year ago. Oh how I missed so much pleasure,!
Una delicia de versión de Concierto de Aranjuez, la escuché por vez primera en 1995 en una radio especializada en jazz en mi país Venezuela (la 95.5 FM) y me quedé impactada, muy sensual y muy cool pero conserva ese aire de misterio y melancolía de este adagio. Gracias por compartirla.
