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Ben Allison & The Easy Way The Music Of Jim Hall & Jimmy Giuffre at Piedmont Piano Company

Courtesy of Sharmila G. Lash | Posted on September 19, 2019

Where

Piedmont Piano Company
1728 San Pablo Avenue
Oakland, CA
Map
(510) 547-8188

Ben Allison & The Easy Way The Music Of Jim Hall & Jimmy Giuffre at Piedmont Piano Company

When

Sat, November 2, 2019
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Ben Allison
bass, acoustic
Michael Zilber
saxophone

About

Both Jim Hall and Jimmy Giuffre wrote tunes perfect for free-flowing and spontaneous musical conversations. The Easy Way is modeled after Giuffre’s drummerless trios of the 1950s and 60s. As jazz was becoming more abstract, expressionistic and at times bombastic, Giuffre and Hall were going in the opposite direction. They were envisioning quieter music that embraced the emerging qualities of free playing, while maintaining elements of blues and folk. This music has a unique kind of sophisticated simplicity that has stood the test of time.

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