67-year-old guitarist Jim Hall continues to innovate. That becomes clear again on his new CD Textures. The compositions he made for this are important. Through this CD it becomes clear that he has great compositional qualities. Textures contains seven tracks: Fanfare (with influences from New Orleans jazz), Ragman (Eastern European atmosphere), Reflections, Quadrologue, Passacaglia (with influences
… from Benjamin Britten, Vaughan Williams or also Frederick Delius), Sazanami (' steel drums' evoke the atmosphere of the Bahamas) and Circus Dance (a melodic waltz). Leader of the band is Gil Goldstein, who was instrumental in the making of this album; producer John Snyder also had a large share. An excellent CD!more
