Geoff Eales: Red Letter Days
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Label: Nimbus - Alliance
Cat No: NI6186
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 2nd April 2012
Contents
Artists
Geoff Eales (piano)Roy Babbington (double bass)
Mark Fletcher (drums)
Jim Mullen (guitar)
Artists
Geoff Eales (piano)Roy Babbington (double bass)
Mark Fletcher (drums)
Jim Mullen (guitar)
About
Texturally, the album features the piano in three contrasting settings: solo, trio and quartet. While the majority of my engagements tend to fall into the first two categories, it is always a pleasure to be asked to put a quartet together and a particular delight to be able to include the great guitarist Jim Mullen in this format. I am thrilled that Jim has been able to join me on a couple of tracks on this CD. Finally, I would like to thank Roy Babbington and Mark Fletcher for their marvellous playing and creative input, as well as Chris Craker and everyone at Black Box for their continuous support.
I am delighted that Nimbus has reissued ‘Red Letter Days’. The overall feel of this recording is quite different from that of my debut CD (also reissued on Nimbus), ‘Mountains of Fire’. Whereas ‘Mountains’ was essentially a swing album, very much inspired by the vibrant, straight-ahead improvisations of Oscar Peterson and Monty Alexander, the musical and emotional reach of ‘Red Letter Days’ is far deeper. True, there are some swingy tracks – 'Hannah’s Riff' and 'So Long Sadness' for example, Jim Mullen’s bluesy guitar greatly enhancing the performances. However, elsewhere it is the more intimate, conversational style of Bill Evans that provided the stimulus for the majority of the music on the album.
Of course, there is a vast difference between ‘being influenced by’ and ‘slavishly copying’. The aim of any true artist is to transcend one’s influences. It is my hope that I have achieved this on ‘Red Letter Days’."
Geoff Eales
Track Listing:
1. A Face Like Yours (Feldman)
2. I Should Care (Weston, Stordahl, Cahn)
3. Killer Jane (Eales)
4. They Didn’t Believe Me (Kern, Reynolds)
5. Hannah’s Riff (Eales)
6. But Beautiful (Van Heusen)
7. Sometime Ago (Mihanovich)
8. Hotting It Up (Eales)
9. Song For My Mother (Eales)
10. So Long Sadness (Drake, VerPlanck)
11. That Final Look (Eales)
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