Jimmy Giuffre 3 - 3

Limited edition classic LP on 180-gram vinyl

"The richly flowing imagination of Giuffre is demonstrated forcefully in this fine set. This is simple, direct, lucid jazz, presented with warmth, honesty and a lack of pretentious devices. This is music of enduring value." — DownBeat magazine

The complete classic studio album The Jimmy Giuffre 3 by a Jimmy Giuffre trio featuring Jim Hall on guitar and Ralph Pena playing bass.  Clarinet and sax virtuoso Jimmy Giuffre's trio work with Jim Hall stands by itself as a unique collection of intimate chamber music. Hall first encountered Giuffre at a jam session at an L.A. club on a Sunday afternoon.

"Jimmy is a very schooled musician," Hall says. "He had a sense of the trio that there should never be just a clarinet out front and we were the accompaniment." Even though Giuffre lived until April 24, 2008, and Jim Hall, at the time he made those remarks, was 77, their paths would never cross again (at least on recordings) after their collaboration on a Teddy Charles album taped on May 6, 1963.

Giuffre writes in the liner notes to The Jimmy Giuffre 3 that his goal with the session was to present the trio doing the kind of material they were doing in person. The session blended a near-equal mixture of writing and ad-libbing. Featuring folk-songy, bluesy, down-home originals such "The Song Is You," "My All" and "Crazy She Calls Me" — "This is the kind of mood and music that we find coming out of our minds and fingers at this time, so we're dong our best to just let it get on to paper, and finally on to wax, as easily as possible because this feels natural," Giuffre says.

Gotta Dance

Tow Kinds Of Blues

The Song Is You

Crazy She Calls Me

Voodoo

My All

That's The Way It Is

Crawdad Suite

The Train And The River

The Green Country

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