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Bob Brookmeyer & Bill Evans
The Ivory Hunters (Double Barrelled Piano)
Genre: Jazz

Track Listings (6) - Disc #1
1. Honeysuckle Rose - Bob Brookmeyer, Razaf, Andy
2. As Time Goes By - Bob Brookmeyer, Hupfeld, Herman
3. The Way You Look Tonight - Bob Brookmeyer, Fields, Dorothy
4. It Could Happen to You - Bob Brookmeyer, Burke, Johnny [Lyri
5. The Man I Love - Bob Brookmeyer, Gershwin, George
6. I Got Rhythm - Bob Brookmeyer, Gershwin, George

CD Details

All Artists: Bob Brookmeyer & Bill Evans
Title: The Ivory Hunters (Double Barrelled Piano)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: United Artists
Release Date: 10/21/2002
Album Type: Import
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Cool Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 4988006806306, 724382732426

Synopsis

Album Description

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CD Reviews

A rare and unusual piano duo with contrasting styles.

12/10/1998

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Brookmeyer never unpacks his valve trombone, and teams up with Bill Evans on piano. Recorded one afternoon in 1959, Brookmeyer offers a staight-ahead, technically rich piano style that contrasts with the more laid back, spontaneous, and lyrical one that became the hallmark of Bill Evans.At the time of this recording, Brookmeyer was an established trombonist with several records to his name. Evans was emerging as a phenomonal pianist, having just joined the Miles Davis quintet in 1958.The tracks recorded were standards (someone liked Gershwin), with the faster paced ones (Honeysuckle Rose) spotlighting Brookmeyer and the slower paced ones (The Man I Love) allowing Evans to show his stuff. Typical of the stereo style of the day, Brookmeyer is heard on the left channel and Evans on the right, with Percy Heath on bass and Connie Kay on drums mixed across both channels.This is a "must have" CD for jazz enthusiasts because of the unusual instrumentation, and as a point of reference in the developing career of Bill Evans."

Just a bit of info for the last reviewer...

soundandimage | omaha, ne United States | 07/24/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Actually Mr. Brookmeyer's first instrument IS piano. He studied piano & composition at the Kansas City Conservatory of Music. He took up the valve-trombone in the early fifties."