Jim McNeely at Maybeck
Live album by
Jim McNeely
RecordedJanuary 1992
VenueMaybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, California
GenreJazz
LabelConcord

Jim McNeely at Maybeck: Maybeck Recital Hall Series Volume Twenty is an album of solo performances by jazz pianist Jim McNeely.

Music and recording

The album was recorded at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California[1] in January 1992.[2] McNeely plays "There Will Never Be Another You" in all twelve keys.[2]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[2]

The AllMusic review concluded: "Sometimes the inspiration level is uneven, but the payoff is high when all cylinders are pumping."[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote of McNeely that "for all the clarity of his touch, he takes in more of the keyboard in each improvisation than many do over a whole recital".[2] Pianist Liam Noble described the performance of "'Round Midnight" as "updating the chord sequence to a kind of post-Bill Evans modality that only unsettle at the very edges of the image".[4]

Track listing

  1. "Introductory Announcement" – 0:12
  2. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 5:14
  3. "Zingaro" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 8:58
  4. "Bye-Ya" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:46
  5. "'Round Midnight" (Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernard Hanighen) – 7:39
  6. "Un Poco Loco" (Bud Powell) – 5:51
  7. "Touch" (Jim McNeely) – 8:41
  8. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:42
  9. "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) – 8:21
  10. "Breaking up, Breaking Out" (McNeely) – 6:33

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Asher, Don (July 24, 2013). "Solo Jazz Piano at Maybeck Recital Hall: A Treasure Hunt Remembered". Jazz Profiles. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1996). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (3rd ed.). Penguin. p. 886. ISBN 978-0-14-051368-4.
  3. 1 2 Ginell, Richard S. "Jim McNeely – Live at Maybeck Recital Hall Series, Vol. 20". AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ Noble, Liam (March 9, 2023). "Liam Noble Writes About the Concord 'Live at Maybeck Recital Hall' Series (Part 2 of 4, 'Round Midnight')". London Jazz News. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
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