Search - Artist/Band: Jim Hall

• Name: Jim Hall
• Birthday: 12/04/1930
• Birth Place: Buffalo, NY
• Decades Active: 1950,1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Cool, Mainstream Jazz, Guitar Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Progressive Jazz
• Moods: Delicate, Elegant, Freewheeling, Intimate, Laid-Back/Mellow, Passionate, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Sophisticated, Amiable/Good-Natured, Austere, Confident, Dramatic, Earnest, Elaborate, Literate, Lively, Plaintive, Poignant, Searching, Sentimental, Stately, Stylish, Warm, Witty, Wry

Title	Release
Hemispheres W	2008
Collection	04/14/2007
Hallmarks: The Best of Jim Hall WA	10/24/2006
Duologues WA	09/13/2005
Blues on the Rocks WA	08/02/2005
Free Association	2005
Unreleased Sessions	11/02/2004
Magic Meeting WA	10/2004
Down Beat Critics' Choice	10/22/2002
Storyteller: Circles/All Across the City WA	06/25/2002
Jazz Impressions of Japan	2002
Jim Hall & Basses	09/25/2001
Mugonuta/Live in Tokyo WA	04/25/2001
Studio Trieste WA	07/26/2000
Ballad Essentials WA	03/14/2000
Jim Hall [Giants of Jazz]	12/07/1999
Jazzpar Quartet + 4 WA	06/01/1999
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny	04/27/1999
By Arrangement	09/29/1998
The Concord Jazz Heritage Series	08/25/1998
Textures	04/29/1997
Dialogues	1995
Dedications & Inspirations WA	1993
Something Special WA	1993
Youkali WA	1992
Subsequently	01/1991
All Across the City WA	05/1989
Jim Hall's Three WA	01/1986
Circles WA	03/1981
Concerto de Aranjuez	01/18/1981
Commitment WA	1976
Concierto WA	04/1975
...Where Would I Be? WA	07/1971
Jazz Guitar	1957

A harmonically advanced cool-toned and subtle guitarist, Jim Hall has been an inspiration to many guitarists, including some (such as Bill Frisell) who sound nothing like him. Hall attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and studied classical guitar in Los Angeles with Vincente Gomez. He was an original member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet (1955-1956), and during 1956-1959 was with the Jimmy Giuffre Three. After touring with Ella Fitzgerald (1960-1961) and sometimes forming duos with Lee Konitz, Hall was with Sonny Rollins' dynamic quartet in 1961-1962, recording The Bridge. He co-led a quartet with Art Farmer (1962-1964), recorded on an occasional basis with Paul Desmond during 1959-1965 (all of their quartet performances are collected on a Mosaic box set), and then became a New York studio musician. He has mostly been a leader ever since and, in addition to his own projects for World Pacific/Pacific Jazz, MPS, Milestone, CTI, Horizon, Artists House, Concord, Music Masters, and Telarc, Jim Hall recorded two classic duet albums with Bill Evans. A self-titled collaboration with Pat Metheny followed in 1999. A flurry of studio albums, reissues, and compilations followed throughout the next few years, with the exceptional Jim Hall & Basses standing out for its bass/guitar duet format. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide