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Hallmark Sessions

Lenny Breau (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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Recorded at Hallmark Studios in Toronto, Canada on Nov. 28, 1961, these cuts were made when Lenny Breau was only 20 years old. This is Lenny's first professionally recorded jazz session, and, until now, has never been released (the original analog reel-to-reel master tapes have been in the possession of Lenny's former manager George B. Sukornyk). In addition to several jazz standards, this includes several solo flamenco and country pieces, plus four previously unheard originals. Lenny recorded seven tracks with acoustic bassist Rick Danko and drummer Levon Helm, both former members of the group The Band, as well as six solo guitar pieces at Hallmark Studios. Includes six bonus tracks that contain the stereo versions of the trio pieces.

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"The Hallmark Sessions", recorded at Hallmark Studios in Toronto, Canada on November 28, 1961, were recorded when Lenny Breau was only twenty years old. This is Lenny's first professionally recorded Jazz session and, until now, has never been released. The original analog reel-to-reel master tapes have been in the possession of Lenny's former manager, George B. Sukornyk, for over forty years. In addition to several Jazz standards such as: It Could Happen To You and I'll Remember April, Lenny also performs several solo Flamenco and Country & Western pieces, as well as four previously unheard original compositions. Lenny recorded seven tracks with acoustic bassist Rick Danko and drummer Levon Helm, both former members of the group The Band, as well as six solo guitar pieces at Hallmark Studios. In addition to the trio and solo tracks, there are also six bonus tracks that contain the Stereo versions of the trio pieces. All tracks have been professionally mastered using 24-bit digital technology.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Technique to Burn and Even Some Taste From a 20-Something! April 12 2004
By Drew A. G. Engman
Format:Audio CD
I haven't heard "Boy Wonder" yet, Lenny's little precocious guitar kid album, because I love the later, more introspective and deeply touching music from Lenny, after the years of pain from his addictions, and the bad choices they cause us who were/are addicts to make, scarred and sensitized him with their sorrows. So I was a little reluctant, but I bought this CD because I had to check Lenny out as a 20 year old cutting his first official jazz album, with Rick Danko and Levon Helm no less!

Absolutely fantastic use of his great prodigal prowess on guitar. It is hard to believe he had only been listening to jazz for a relatively short time, and beginning to practice and learning to play it for even less time. He sounds so fully developed, with of many of the licks and techniques down that dozens of world class oldtime jazz guitar players made entire careers out of.

I hear Barney Kessel in many of the up tempo single note cascades. I hear some Joe Pass in the trio stuff, when he's mixing the chordal passages with single note cadenza-like outbursts of sheer enthusiastic shredding. My only criticism is he is hung up on using one too many pull-offs (from pinky down to index with left hand on a single string)in one too many places.

Overall, another exhilarating, exciting, rewarding addition to the best of the best of chordal jazz guitar collections possible, by a young master high up on his game, with unimaginable peaks and valleys to come.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lenny Breau July 21 2010
By David Volek
Format:Audio CD
Great guitar playing: I can hear lots of fast fingers. It would have been great to see him live.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Love the new Lenny Breau! Sep 25 2003
By Laurence G.
Format:Audio CD
Love the new Lenny Breau! Congrats on continuing to spread the sounds of one of the most unheralded of guitar giants. To hear him cross every musical boundary and genre from THAT early on is just astonishing.
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