Alone at Montreux [Live]

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Though he first came to prominence in the 1950s playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Bryant has a stylistic sweep that reaches to piano styles that predate bop, to boogie, stride, barrelhouse and swing. He's an incarnate master of all those moments when jazz and blues have nestled most closely, a determinedly two-handed pianist whose solo performances can rock as steadily as a classic Kansas City big band. Happily, there's nothing of the "recital" about this 1972 performance. Bryant is at his best on blues-inflected songs such as Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair," Avery Parrish's "After Hours," and his own funky tunes and spontaneous blues, but he also injects some soul into the folk songs "Greensleeves" and Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Until It's Time for You to Go." --Stuart Broomer

Album Details
Japanese Version featuring 20 Bit Remastering and Limited Edition LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Alone at Montreux, Music, Ray Bryant, Jazz, Jazz Music, Pop, Soul-Jazz

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The wonderful Ray Bryant

Alone at Montreux

Manufacturer: Collectables Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00006J9NV
Release Date: 2002-08-27

Tracks:

Gotta Travel On
Blues No 3 Willow Weep For Me
Cubano Chant
Rockin Chair
After Hours
Slow Freight
Greensleeves
Little Susie
Until Its Time For You To Go
Blues No 2
Liebestraum Boogie

Album Description

Going solo for this live recording, Bryant explores the tradition along with his own original soulful compositions. 'Greensleeves', 'Until Its Time For You To Go' and 'Rockin' Chair' highlight this distinctive 1972 Atlantic album. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

The wonderful Ray Bryant.......2006-08-12

After playing/recording quite a bit of rock-and-rollish pop oriented stuff throughout the late `60s, Ray got a chance to air out his jazz chops again at the 1972 Montreux Jazz Festival. And he made the best of it. Bryant is an excellent blues player and he plays wonderfully on the blues tracks here: BLUES # 2 & 3 (both first recorded on Ray's highly regarded ALONE WITH THE BLUES album on Prestige from 1958), the ever-popular SLOW FREIGHT, and Avery Parrish's famous AFTER HOURS. Ray plays with a solid, sometimes even pounding, left hand, especially on GOTTA TRAVEL ON and CUBANO CHANT. His right hand can do everything under the sun a piano player is supposed to do, from producing sweeping, lilting melody phrases (GREENSLEEVES) to producing searing white heat (BLUES #2). LIEBESTRAUM BOOGIE sounds like it was an encore, and it's a delightful boogie on a classical tune; Ray has a lot of fun with it. Although not as outstanding as Ray's appearance at Montreux 5 years later in 1977 (recorded for Pablo), this showcases some of his best playing during this jazz-thin period of time.

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Alone at Montreux
Ray Bryant
Manufacturer: Atlantic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000JJS4FA
Release Date: 2007-01-01

Tracks:

Gotta Travel On
Blues, No. 3/Willow Weep for Me
Cubano Chant
Rockin' Chair
After Hours
Slow Freight
Greensleeves
Little Susie
Until It's Time for You to Go
Blues, No. 2
Liebestraum Boogie

Album Description

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. Atlantic. 2007.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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Alone at Montreux

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music
ASIN: B000BDJ21E
Release Date: 2005-12-13

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Time Capsule.

Alone at Montreux
Ray Bryant
Manufacturer: 32. Jazz Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000IXSV
Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

Gotta Travel On
Blues #3/Willow Weep For Me
Cubano Chant
Rockin' Chair
After Hours
Slow Freight
Greensleeves
Little Susie
Until It's Time For You To Go
Blues #2
Liebestraum Boogie

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Though he first came to prominence in the 1950s playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Bryant has a stylistic sweep that reaches to piano styles that predate bop, to boogie, stride, barrelhouse and swing. He's an incarnate master of all those moments when jazz and blues have nestled most closely, a determinedly two-handed pianist whose solo performances can rock as steadily as a classic Kansas City big band. Happily, there's nothing of the "recital" about this 1972 performance. Bryant is at his best on blues-inflected songs such as Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair," Avery Parrish's "After Hours," and his own funky tunes and spontaneous blues, but he also injects some soul into the folk songs "Greensleeves" and Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Until It's Time for You to Go." --Stuart Broomer

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring 20 Bit Remastering and Limited Edition LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing Only.

Customer Reviews:

Time Capsule........2001-07-16

Maybe it's easiest to sum things up in advance: I love this album.

I love all things Ray, actually, but -

I prefer the solo work to trio, and I prefer the live stuff to studio - still...

This album is magic somehow. Like a photograph of an old relative you never met, but still feel you knew. I listen to this album (CD, I know) and feel very much like I am recalling having been there that night.

Sigh.

I can't begin to describe how wonderful this album is, and it would be pretentious of me to try. I will say this, if you are a familiar with Big Ray, this is one of his best.

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