Artist: Jimmy Giuffre
Title: Discography
Year Of Release: 1951-2008
Genre: Jazz, West Coast Jazz, Cool Jazz,
Quality: MP3 192-320 kbps
Total Time: 22 albums
Total Size: 4,2 Gb
WebSite: offsite
Controversial, misunderstood, and underappreciated, Jimmy Giuffre was an unlikely candidate to break as much ground as he did in the art of free improvisation. A swing orchestra veteran, Giuffre made his name as part of the West Coast school of cool jazz, but his restless creative spirit drove him to push the boundaries of texture, dynamic shading, counterpoint, and improvisational freedom in surprisingly avant-garde ways, despite maintaining a cool, cerebral exterior.
Born in Dallas in 1921, Giuffre studied music at North Texas College and subsequently played tenor sax in an Army band; upon his discharge, he took jobs with orchestra leaders like Boyd Raeburn, Jimmy Dorsey, and Buddy Rich. In 1949, he joined up with Woody Herman, for whom he'd penned the classic composition "Four Brothers" two years earlier. He then moved to the West Coast, where he learned clarinet and baritone sax, and played with groups like Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars and Shorty Rogers' Giants. Giuffre began leading his own sessions in 1954, with groundbreaking albums like Four Brothers and Tangents in Jazz exploring bluesy folk-jazz and third stream fusions.
In 1956, he formed the first version of the Jimmy Giuffre 3, which featured guitarist Jim Hall and bassist Ralph Pena; in 1958, the bassist was replaced by trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, resulting in the highly unorthodox-sounding albums Trav'lin' Light, Four Brothers Sound, and Western Suite, as well as a classic version of Giuffre's hit "The Train and the River" in the Newport film Jazz on a Summer's Day.
In 1961, Giuffre formed a new trio featuring pianist Paul Bley and bassist Steve Swallow; it was with this group, on the albums Fusion, Thesis, and the 1962 landmark Free Fall, that Giuffre really began to explore the subtler, more spacious side of free improvisation (mostly on clarinet). Unfortunately, the trio's music was too advanced to gain much of a reception, and they disbanded in 1962. Giuffre became an educator, and recorded off and on during the '70s; he experimented with electric instruments in the '80s, reunited his 1961-1962 trio in 1992, and continued to record for several avant-garde-oriented labels, most frequently Soul Note. In his later years Giuffre suffered from Parkinson's disease and no longer performed or recorded; he died of pneumonia in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 2008 at the age of 86.
ALBUMS:
1951-1959 - Lee Konitz Meets Jimmy Giuffre (320 kbps)
1954 - Four Brothers (320 kbps)
1957-1958 - Hollywood and Newport (320 kbps)
1957 - Jimmy Giuffre 3 (320 kbps)
1958 - Western Suite (320 kbps)
1959 - 7 Pieces (256 kbps)
1959 - Herb Ellis Meets Jimmy Giuffre (320 kbps)
1959 - The Easy Way (320 kbps)
1961 - Emphasis & Flight (320 kbps)
1961 - Jimmy Giuffre 3 (320 kbps)
1961 - Live at Graz (Live at Grosser Saal der Arbeiterkammer) (320 kbps)
1963 - Free Fall (320 kbps)
1973 - Music for People, Birds, Butterflies and Mosquitos (192 kbps)
1975 - River Chant (320 kbps)
1976 - Quiet Song (320 kbps)
1988 - Momentum, Willisau (with Andre Jaume) (320 kbps)
1989 - The Life of a Trio (Sunday) (256 kbps)
1991 - Live in Montreal (vbr 192-320 kbps)
1992 - Fly Away Little Bird (320 kbps)
1993 - Dragonfly (320 kbps)
1997 - The Complete Capitol and Atlantic Recordings (6CD) (320 kbps)
2008 - Complete Studio Recordings (with Jim Hall Trio) (4CD) (320 kbps)
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