Johnny Griffin Meets Horace Parlan - Close Your Eyes (2000)
Johnny Griffin Meets Horace Parlan - Close Your Eyes (2000)
Label: Minor Music | FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps | Time: 59:14 | 264 MB(+3%) | 140 MB(+3%)
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop
Label: Minor Music | FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps | Time: 59:14 | 264 MB(+3%) | 140 MB(+3%)
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop
Close Your Eyes (2000) is a remarkable jazz album featuring the reunion of two legendary musicians: tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin and pianist Horace Parlan. Recorded in February 2000 at Gag Studios in Hamburg, Germany, this duo session captures the intimate interplay between the two artists. At the time, Griffin was 71 years old, and Parlan was 69, bringing decades of experience to this collaboration. The album was released by Minor Music in 2003.
Tracklist
01. I'll Close My Eyes (Kaye-Reid) - 6:38
02. Pannonica (Monk) - 9:32
03. I Hear a Rhapsody (Baker-Fragos-Gasparre) - 6:01
04. My One and Only One (Mellin-Wood) - 8:27
05. Someone to Watch over Me (Gershwin-Gershwin) - 5:51
06. My Little Brown Book (Strayhorn) - 10:39
07. The Jamfs Are Coming (Griffin) - 5:24
08. You're My Everything (Dixon-Warren-Young) - 6:42
personnel :
Johnny Griffin - tenor saxophone
Horace Parlan - piano
Chicago has long been famous for big-toned tenor men, and when jazz enthusiasts are discussing hard bop tenor giants who have lived in the Windy City, Johnny Griffin's name inevitably comes up, along with the likes of Gene Ammons (who died of cancer in 1974), and Ira Sullivan (who also plays several other wind instruments, including alto and soprano sax, trumpet, and flugelhorn). Griffin was 71 when, in February 2000, he visited Hamburg, Germany and recorded Close Your Eyes, an album of tenor/piano duets with pianist Horace Parlan (who was 69 at the time). Neither bass nor drums are employed on this German release – strictly sax and acoustic piano – and this intimate setting works well for the veteran jazzmen, who enjoy a consistently strong rapport throughout the album. Clearly, neither musician has lost anything in the chops department; both are very much on top of their game. Over the years, Griffin has had no problem with the fiercely competitive, hell-bent-for-chops approach – there's a reason why his admirers used to describe him as "the world's fastest tenor" – but Close Your Eyes isn't about competition. It's about dialogue, intimacy, and lyricism, and Griffin's lyrical side serves him nicely on standards like "My One and Only Love," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "I Hear a Rhapsody," and Thelonious Monk's "Pannonica". Yes, many of the songs on this CD are warhorses that have been beaten to death over the years, but when the tenor in question is a 71-year-old bop survivor who has spent more than half-a-century in the trenches, one tends to be forgiving of the warhorse factor. Close Your Eyes falls short of essential, but it's a respectable, solid addition to Griffin's sizable catalog.~Alex Henderson
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Johnny Griffin Meets Horace Parlan / Close Your Eyes
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Johnny Griffin Meets Horace Parlan / Close Your Eyes
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