TAL FARLOW & LENNY BREAU: Chance Meeting [RE-UP]

TAL FARLOW & LENNY BREAU
Aí está o registro do encontro dos gigantes Tal e Lennie, terçando suas guitarras num clima bem informal. O repertório é um colar de pérolas que os dois gênios da guitarram dissecam, esgotando todas as possibilidades harmônicas e melódicas contidas nestes "standards" eternos.
------------
ALBUM REVIEW
The auspicious meeting that this album's title refers to took place for the PBS documentary Talmage Farlow in 1980. While Farlow's stature in the annals of jazz guitar goes without saying, the justification for separately issuing the soundtrack some 17 years later is the untimely 1984 demise of Breau, a circumstance that left him drastically under recorded, considering his unique, innovative approach to the instrument. The mutual admiration between the players is obvious throughout the nine impromptu performances, which were recorded at a New Jersey club. On "Satin Doll" the participants freely exchange roles; at points, Breau improvises single-note
lines and comps chord fragments at the same time (one of his innovative trademarks), while Farlow gets in some characteristic long fluid runs. "All The Things You Are" begins tentatively, but soon grooves to firm underpinning provided by drummer Nat Garratano and bassist Lyn Christie, while the quartet burns its way through "Cherokee," which features virtuosic solos by Breau and Farlow. The set concludes with a sensitive reading of "My Foolish Heart" that gives both guitarists a chance to display their respective approaches to harmonics. More than sophisticated chordal structures and harmonics, the thing that these two geniuses-a generation apart-really have in common is the music, which eloquently speaks for itself.
By Jim Ferguson
--------
“Simply a must for anyone who wants to hear as much great guitar as possible. Please consider this also a Breau review in general: Lenny was able to, with his monstrous fingerpicking and incomparable harmonics technique, effect the guitar’s evolution in much the same way as Stanley Jordan’’s tapping did many years later. The differences are important: Breau’’s dynamics, tone quality, and rythmic vitality are -so much better- than tapping’’s tinny music-box tendencies (and although it doesn’’t have any thing to do with the technical differences, Lenny never sold out). No one yet has even -attempted- to be a Breau imitator (or at least not come close enough to be recognized as one), in spite of all of the extra strings guys seem to be putting on their guitars lately, Lenny ended up using a -high- A over E, but did much recording on the usual six.”
By Fighthepower - (Chicago, IL)
-----------
MINHA OPINIÃO: dizer mais o que...? Ah! tá bom, vou ser bem original: "briga de cachorro grande!"
----------
TAL FARLOW & LENNY BREAU: Chance Meeting
Recorded live at The Sign Of The Times in Rumson, New Jersey on 5/21/80.

PERSONNELL:
Tal Farlow: Guitar
Lenny Breau: Guitar
Lyn Christie: Bass (Tracks 4 and 6 only)
Nat Garratano: Drums (Tracks 4 and 6 only)

Tracks/Faixas:
1. I LOVE YOU (Cole Porter) (5:24)?
2. SATIN DOLL (Duke Ellington) (7:02)?
3. MY FUNNY VALENTINE (Hart / Rogers) (8:40)?
4. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE (Hammerstein / Kern) (11:31)?
5. CONVERSATION (TAL & LENNY) (2:34)?
6. CHEROKEE (Ray Noble) (4:29)?
7. WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE? (Cole Porter) (4:18)?
8. BROADWAY (Woode / McRae / Bird) (5:52)?
9. MY FOOLISH HEART (Washington / Young) (6:59)