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Boxset / Compilation · 2008

Filed under Cool Jazz
By JIMMY GIUFFRE

Tracklist

1.1 Gotta Dance 2:33
1.2 The Train and the River 3:35
1.3 The Song Is You 3:56
1.4 That's The Way It Is 3:49
1.5 Two Kinds of Blues 5:15
1.6 Crazy She Calls Me 4:18
1.7 My All 4:13
1.8 Crawdad Suite 7:13
1.9 Voodoo 2:53
1.10 Trav'lin Light 3:58
1.11 The Lonely Time 3:47
1.12 Pickin' Em Up and Layin' Em Down 5:26
1.13 The Green Country 3:01
1.14 The Swamp People 6:24
1.15 Show Me The Way to Go Home 4:28
1.16 Forty-Second Street 6:18
1.17 California, Here I Come 2:53
1.18 The Train and the River 4:46
2.1 Pickin' Em Up and Layin' Em Down 5:46
2.2 The Green Country 3:10
2.3 The Lonely Time 3:57
2.4 Trav'lin Light 4:25
2.5 Forty-Second Street 6:17
2.6 Show Me the Way Go Home 4:42
2.7 The Swamp People 5:37
2.8 California, Here I Come 2:42
2.9 I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues 3:27
2.10 Space 3:34
2.11 Cabin in the Sky 2:56
2.12 Memphis in June 3:33
2.13 Four Brothers 3:25
2.14 Old Folks 2:25
2.15 Blues in the Barn 4:43
2.16 Topsy 11:28
3.1 Blue Monk 8:24
3.2 Western Suite 17:48
3.3 Happy Man 7:23
3.4 Princess 9:23
3.5 Song of the Wind 5:55
3.6 Lovely Willow 4:21
3.7 The Little Melody 7:07
3.8 The Story 7:29
3.9 Time Machine 4:41
3.10 Pony Express 5:27
4.1 Ray's Time 7:00
4.2 The Easy Way 5:56
4.3 Time Enough 2:41
4.4 Come Rain or Come Shine 4:32
4.5 Montage 1:51
4.6 Mack the Knife 4:54
4.7 A Dream 2:09
4.8 Off Center 4:41
4.9 Careful 6:30
4.10 Come Rain or Come Shine 2:10
4.11 Ode to Switzerland 4:46
4.12 The Train and the River 5:03
4.13 Gotta Dance 2:19
4.14 Four Brothers 2:40
4.15 Two Kinds of Blues 4:46
4.16 Song of the Wind 6:54
4.17 Down Home 5:34

Line-up/Musicians

Jimmy Giuffre (cl, ts & bs) and Jim Hall (g) on all tracks, plus:
Ralph Peña, Jim Atlas, Red Mitchell, Ray Brown or Wilfred Middlebrooks (b) or Bob Brookmeyer (p, v-tb)

About this release

Gambit 69300 (Spain)

Includes the complete original albums:
- “The Jimmy Giuffre 3” (Atlantic LP 1254) - 1957
- “Trav’lin’ Light” (Atlantic LP 1282) - 1958
- “The Four Brothers Sound” (Atlantic LP 1295) - 1959
- “Western Suite” (Atlantic LP 1330) - 1958
- “7 Pieces” (Verve MGV 8307) - 1959
- “The Easy Way” (Verve MGV S6095) - 1959

All sessions recorded in Los Angeles, New York, Lenox and Chicago, between 1956 and 1959

The bonus tracks:
Disc 4 [tracks #10-11] features Jimmy Giuffre in four unaccompanied overdubbed tenor sax lines). Recorded in New York, June 23, 1958.
Disc 3, [track #10] & Disc 4, [tracks #12-17] are live trio recordings from 1957-1959