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Jimmy Giuffre - Western Suite - 180g LP

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AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Pure Pleasure / Atlantic - PPAN SD-1330 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl

Pure Analogue Mastering - Pressed at Pallas Germany - Limited Edition

AAA 100% Analogue - Mastered by Ray Staff at Air London - Atlantic SD-1330

hi-fi + Dennis Davis, December 2015

Pure Pleasure Records has decided to tackle a difficult target with this excellent release. Giuffre started out as a swing band saxophone player who developed into an avant-garde artist who best known for his clarinet playing - not exactly a formula for big record sales. Giuffre came out of the cool jazz left coast tradition to play with a shifting group of like-minded improvisation artists, including Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, and Jim Hall. They were at their apex in the early 1960s with a string of releases on Verve and Columbia. He had recently began touring with a rhythm-less group, replacing Pena with trombonist Bob Brookmeyer.

In the liner notes Giuffre makes the point that not having a drummer or bassist to “make time” gave this band the freedom to flow, as he put it: “I believe in letting the music play itself instead of forcing it.” That is clearly what he achieved on a remarkable album that sounds as good as you could imagine thanks to Pure Pleasure’s painstaking remastering and high quality pressing. - The Ear

the trio plays quiet, haunting music that, is not as challenging as Giuffre's masterpiece Free Fall, three years in the future, is also more approachable. Sounding redolent of ECM sound, the ambiguous instrumental timbres signal a freedom from jazz's strictures of the 1950s and a direction that still sounds modern and familiar more than half a century later.

Pure Pleasure's 180gram reissue, mastered by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, presents a nice stereo image, better than average for 1958. Never an easy LP to find in playable shape, this was an excellent choice for reissue. DD

Pure Pleasure’s re-mastering breathes new life into Western Suite. Brookmeyer’s valve trombone sounds lush without the slightest tonal piercing. Equally the clarinet is smooth without any of the innate shrillness. The mixing is excellent and the listener can discern the most understated background instrumentals. Original liner notes by Nate Henthoff take you into the creative thought process of Giuffre. Sound 4.5/5 Audiophile Audition

Remastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London

In late 1957, jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and iconoclast Jimmy Giuffre broke up the original Jimmy Giuffre 3 with Ralph Pena and Jim Hall. In early 1958, for a recording session, he formed a new trio without a rhythm section. For the album Trav'lin' Light, his new trio included Hall on guitar and the underrated trombone giant Bob Brookmeyer. For a year, they gigged together up and down the West Coast and played summer festivals, recorded, and even played clubs in New York.

They became a trio of adventurous musicians for whom form was not an obstacle to creativity. As the year wound down, Giuffre wanted to document the trio once more, sensing its life was coming to an end. He composed the four-movement "Western Suite" with the trio's strengths in mind, as a way of documenting how they had come together as a band during that year. The piece itself stands as a crowning achievement in a career that included discovering the talents of Steve Swallow and Paul Bley and making the truly revolutionary recording Free Fall for Columbia three years later. The roots of that thinking lie in this set. Jim Hall's playing was dark, funky, ambiguous, sounding like drums and voices all at the same time -- particularly in the fourth movement. Brookmeyer became the pace setter.

His lines were played as stage settings for the other two players to dialogue and narrate against. Giuffre, ever the storyteller, advanced the improvisation angle and wrote his score so that each player had to stand on his own as part of the group; there were no comfort zones. Without a rhythm section, notions of interval, extensions, interludes, and so on were out the window. He himself played some of his most retrained yet adventurous solos in the confines of this trio and within the form of this suite. It swung like West Coast jazz, but felt as ambitious as Copland's Billy the Kid. The record is filled out with two other tunes, one of Eddie Durham's, "Topsy," and the final moment of mastery this band ever recorded, the already classic "Blue Monk."

The easy stroll of the front line with Brookmeyer's trombone strutting New Orleans' style is in sharp contrast to Giuffre's clarinet playing. Which carries the bluesy melody through three harmonic changes before he solos and then plays three more. Hall keeps it all on track, and somehow the piece sounds very natural this way, though unlike "Monk," there are no edges here -- everything is rounded off. This is as solid as any of the earlier or later Jimmy Giuffre 3 records, and two notches above Trav'lin' Light in that it reveals a fully developed sense of the responsibilities, possibilities, and freedoms of reinventing jazz for the trio.

Jimmy Guiffre: Western Suite hi-fi news April 2016 by Ken Kessler

In 1958, saxophonist Giuffre retained guitarist Jim Hall and added trombonist Bob Brookmeyer for a 2nd version of the Jimmy Giuffre Trio. That December , sans rhythm section, they recorded this LP's eponymous four-movement suite to fill A-side, flipping over the album for exquisite versions of Jazz standards `Topsy' and `Blue Monk'. This lp is simply gorgeous, it's appeal not unlike that of Kind Of Blue or Time Out in its unusal combination of, on one hand, jazz purity abd creativity to satisfy cognoscenti, yet with accessibility often denied to those who find jazz so impenetrable on the other. Smooth and majestic, sexy and funky….don’t miss it. KK

Personnel:

Jimmy Giuffre, clarinet, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone

Jim Hall, guitar

Bob Brookmeyer, trombone

Recorded 1958

Supervised by: Nesuhi Ertegun

Recording Engineer: Heinz Kubicka, Herb Kaplan, Tom Dowd.

Selections:
Side One:
1. Pony Express
2. Apaches
3. Saturday Night Dance
4. Big Pow Wow

Side Two:
1. Topsy
2. Blue Monk

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