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Track Listings
| 1. It's Me, O Lord (Standin' In The Need Of Prayer) |
| 2. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen |
| 3. Spiritual |
| 4. Wade In The Water |
| 5. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot |
| 6. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child |
| 7. L'Amour De Moy |
| 8. Danny Boy |
| 9. I've Got A Robe, You Got A Robe |
| 10. Steal Away |
| 11. We Shall Overcome |
| 12. Go Down, Moses |
| 13. My Lord, What A Mornin' |
| 14. Hymn Medley: Abide With Me/Just As I Am... |
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Charlie Haden has always had a penchant for roots music, including folk songs from varied traditions in the repertoire of his Liberation Music Orchestra. It's more than affectation; the bassist's musical roots are in Oklahoma, and his career began in early childhood with his family's country-music group. Those sources loom large in this inspired meeting with pianist Hank Jones over a program devoted largely to spirituals, with a few secular folk songs added in. The feelings communicated here arise from no simple reading of traditional material. It's Jones's unmatched harmonic sensitivity that often works the transformation, his close-voiced chords adding new resonance to summon the depths at which this material communicates. Haden, for his part, is as effective a soloist as he is an accompanist, spare and exacting and making full use of his huge, dark sound and powerful lower register. This is music by two masters, immersing themselves in a profound stream of American music. --Stuart Broomer
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A TREASURE,
By Rob Preble (Rapid City, SD United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Steal Away Spirtuals Hymns/Fo (Audio CD)
Hank Jones on piano and Charlie Haden on bass take a journey through the last few hundred years of the music of the common man (and woman). Stripped of fancy finish and shiny veneer, these spirituals, hymns and folk songs are revealed in all their sublime natural glory.Gospel, jazz and blues harmonies, applied with the confidence of a master's touch, highlight the homespun melodies in a way that's humble and pure. Imagine suddenly stumbling across a piece of driftwood that takes your breath away with its earthy beauty, or finding an agate that releases a small, blazing rainbow of colors in your hand. This music is just such a found treasure.
5.0 out of 5 stars
beyond priceless,
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This review is from: Steal Away Spirtuals Hymns/Fo (Audio CD)
I heard a short bit of this CD on the radio, and ordered the CD just afterwards. This is my second order- I am getting five copies for friends.I think this is some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard, regardless of genre. It is timeless, lovely, graceful, and profound. It shares with other great recordings I've heard the paradox of being technically rather simple and emotionally extraordinarily complex. You do not need to be a jazz buff to like it, or appreciate it; it is direct and powerful. If, when I die, I hear music like this, I will know I was good enough on earth to go to heaven.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Doesn't look like,but a very very great record,
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This review is from: Steal Away Spirtuals Hymns/Fo (Audio CD)
At first sight,no,at the first audition,this record may seem to contain some easy-to-listen-to kind of music.But it's a mistake.This meeting between the old pal of Ornette Coleman,Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell,leader of the rare but exceptionnal "Liberation Music Orchestra",lover of all kinds of folk music,wether it's blues,gospel,south american music or wherever in the world,the great Charlie Haden,and the greatest jazz piano player still alive,child of Fats Waller,Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum (his main influences),member of one of the most revered families of jazz musicians (his brothers are Thad and Elvin Jones),born 1918 and still handsome and active in music,the amazing Hank Jones,this meeting is one of the most important things that happened in the jazz history in the past ten years. This exceptionnal album was recorded June 29 and 30,1994.The repertoire is mostly made of gospel tunes,except the traditionnal "Danny boy",aka "Londonderry air",and a canadian song from Quebec,written in the 18th century,"L'amour de moy" ("my love"). You've got to deserve this record.It seems so simple to listen to at the first audition;but it will give you its incredible beauties only after two or more playings.Hank Jones' playing seems to be very simple,but his incredible work on harmonies is the mark of the greatest players.Each tune is a jewel.The final track,"hymn medley" is a rare moment of perfection.The first tune of this medley,"abide with me",was written by a certain William H.Monk,and recorded by...Thelonious Monk,with John Coltrane,Coleman Hawkins,Gigi Gryce and Ray Copeland on "Monk's music"(Riverside)."what a friend we have in Jesus" is played in a very nostalgic,even melancholic way by Hank Jones;only a supreme piano player could play that way,so simply,so directly."Amazing grace",a very emotionnal song,close this album magnificently. If you love piano players who like to use of technical effects (I won't give any name,you have to make your choice,but please note that I DON'T THINK OF ART TATUM,who is ,to me,the greatest piano player of all times),you may have some troubles to discover the amazing treasures of this music.But if you love guys who plays a few notes to say a lot of things (Monk,Duke,Wilson,Basie...),you'll sure consider this session as an essential masterpiece.
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