Jim Hall (musician)

James Stanley Hall (born December 4, 1930, Buffalo, New York) is an American Jazz guitarist.

Biography

Educated at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Hall moved to Los Angeles where he began to attract national, and then international, attention in the late 1950s. There he studied classic guitar with Vincente Gómez. He played with Chico Hamilton Quintet, (1955-1956), Jimmy Giuffre Trio (1956-1959), Ella Fitzgerald (1960-1961), Ben Webster, Hampton Hawes, Bob Brookmeyer, John Lewis, Zoot Sims, Paul Desmond, Lee Konitz and Bill Evans. By 1960 Jim had arrived in New York to work with Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, among others. His live and recorded collaborations there with Bill Evans, Paul Desmond and Ron Carter have become legendary.

His first formal recognition as a composer came in 1997, when Hall won the New York Jazz Critics Circle Award for Best Jazz Composer/Arranger. His pieces for string, brass, and vocal ensembles can be heard on his "Textures" and "By Arrangement" recordings. His original composition, "Quartet Plus Four," a piece for jazz quartet augmented by the Zapolski string quartet, was debuted in Denmark during the concert and ceremony where he was awarded the coveted Jazzpar Prize, and later released on CD.

His most recent large-scale composition was a concerto for guitar and orchestra, commissioned by Towson University in Maryland for The First World Guitar Congress, which was debuted in June 2004 with the Baltimore Symphony. He was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship award in January 2004. In November, 2008 Jim released the double-disc album "Hemispheres" through the ArtistShare label with fellow guitar legend and former student Bill Frisell, Scott Colley (bass) and Joey Baron (drums).

Discography

As leader

It's Nice to Be With You (1969) MPS Records
Where Would I Be? (1971)
Alone Together (1972) - with Ron Carter
Concierto (1975)
Jim Hall Live! (1975)
Jim Hall Live in Tokyo (1976)
Commitment (1976)
Jim Hall and Red Mitchell (1978, Artists House) - duo recorded live at Sweet Basil
Big Blues (1978) - with Art Farmer
Circles (1981)
Studio Trieste (1982)
Telephone (1985) - with Ron Carter
Power of Three (1986) - with Michel Petrucciani and Wayne Shorter
These Rooms (1988)
All Across the City (1989)
Live at Town Hall, Vol. 1 (1990)
Live at Town Hall, Vol. 2 (1990)
Subsequently (1991)
Youkali (1993)
Something Special (1993)
Alone Together (1993)
Dedications & Inspirations (1993)
Dialogues (1995)
Live at the Village West (1995) - with Ron Carter
Textures (1996)
Panorama (1997)
By Arrangement (1998)
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999)
Grand Slam: Live at the Regatta Bar (2000) - with Joe Lovano
Jim Hall & Basses (2001)
Hemispheres (2008) - with Bill Frisell, Joey Baron, Scott Colley

As sideman

Street Swingers (1957) - with Bob Brookmeyer
Good Friday Blues (1960) - with the Modest Jazz Trio
The Bridge (1962) - with Sonny Rollins
To Sweden with Love (1964) - with Art Farmer
Music of Bill Evans (1986) - with Kronos Quartet
The Paul Desmond Quartet with Jim Hall (1995) - with Paul Desmond

With Bill Evans

Interplay (1962)
Undercurrent (1963)
Intermodulation (1966)

Translation of "Jim Hall (musician)"

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