Interview by Oscar Peñas with Jim Hall

Jim talks about arranging, composition, and the nineties.

Interview

Conversation with Jim Hall (4) Girona 2004

This is a truly unique “organ trio” featuring the constant radiance and glow of Bill McBirnie’s extraordinary flute work, the non-stop “snap, crackle, pop” of Anthony Michelli on drums and the relentless groove of Bernie Senensky on a vintage Hammond B3 organ, which binds everything together in a most unusual and genuinely gratifying format.  "…This may easily be one of the finest recordings of this year…McBirnie is clearly at the top of his game...”  (Raul da Gama, Latin Jazz Network)


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Pedal steel guitarist Greg Lisz creates the perfect atmospheric mood alongside Caswell’s violin on “Spaghetti Western,” Peñas’ composition to salute Ennio Morricone, the longtime musical partner to Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone, a pioneer of the Spaghetti Western genre that gave us such classic Clint Eastwood vehicles as “A Fistful of Dollars” and “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.”

Conversation with Jim Hall (4) Girona 2004

Oscar Peñas

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