Jim Hall (musician)

James Stanley Hall , born with Buffalo in the state of New York on December 4th 1930, is a Guitariste of American Jazz .

Career

After studies at the Institute of music of Cleveland, Jim Hall leaves for Los Angeles. He studies there the traditional guitar with Vincente Gómez, and starts to make known himself there at the end of the Années 1950. He plays with the quintet of Chico Hamilton in 1955 and 1956, with the trio of Jimmy Giuffre in 1956-1959.

In 1960 Jim Hall settles with New York. He accompanies Ella Fitzgerald in 1960-1961, and plays with musicians as various as Sony Rollins and Art Farmer, or Ben Webster, Hampton Hawes, Bob Brookmeyer, John Lewis, Zoot Sims, Lee Konitz.

Its concerts and its recordings with the trio of Bill Evans (Evans, Paul Desmond, Ron Casing) are legendary.

Discography

partial Discography

1957 Street Swingers (with Bob Brookmeyer)
1960 Good Friday Blues (with O Modest Jazz Trio)
1962 Undercurrent (with Bill Evans)
1966 Intermodulation (with Bill Evans)
1971 Where Would I Be?
1972 Alone Together (with Ron Casing)
1975 Concierto
1975 Live!
1976 Jim Live Hall in Tokyo
1978 Jim Hall & Red Mitchell (duet recorded live At Sweet Basil)
1981 Circles
1988 Thesis Rooms
1989 All Across the City
1990 Live At Town Hall flight 1-2
1991 Subsequently
1993 Youkali
1993 Alone Together
1993 Dedications and Inspirations
1995 Dialogs
1995 Live At the Village West (with Ron Casing)
1997 Textures
1998 By Arrangement
1999 Jim Hall & Stalemate Metheny
2000 Large Slam: Live At the Regatta Bar (with Joe Lovano)
2001 Jim Hall & Low

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