Jimmy Giuffre
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Biography
[Edit]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.
Title: The Jimmy Giuffre 3 / Trav’lin’ Light / The Jimmy Giuffre 3 / Trav'lin' Light
Artist: Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz
Title: IAI Festival (Live)
Artist: Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, Bill Connors
Title: Improvising Artists Festival
Artist: Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Jimmy Giuffre, Bill Connors
Genre: Jazz
Title: New Forms in Jazz: Complete Capitol Recordings (1954-1955) [feat. Jack Sheldon]
Artist: Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note (CD3)
Artist: Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz
Title: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note (CD4)
Artist: Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz
Title: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note (CD1)
Artist: Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz
Title: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note (CD2)
Artist: Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz
Title: Conversations With a Goose
Artist: Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz
Title: Emphasis & Flight, 1961 (Live)
Artist: Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz
Title: The Life of a Trio: Sunday
Artist: Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz, Avant Garde Metal
Title: The Life of a Trio: Saturday
Artist: Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Jazz, Avant Garde Jazz
Title: The Life Of A Trio, Saturday
Artist: Paul Bley, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Giuffre
Genre: Avant Garde Jazz, Chamber Jazz, Free Jazz
Collections
Title: The Purple Collection
Genre: Electronica, Pop
Title: L.A. Noire - Jazz Inspired By The Video Game
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Blues R&B! Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Atlantic Jazz: Best of the 50's
Genre: Jazz
Title: Legends Of Jazz (Live)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Atlantic Jazz: Great Moments In Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Original Sound Deluxe Collection - Joy of Flying
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Sound of Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Classic Kid's Songs
Genre: Kids
Title: Harold Arlen Songbook: Over the Rainbow
Genre: Jazz
Title: Rodgers & Hart Songbook: Blue Moon
Genre: Jazz
Title: ECM Selected Recordings IX-XX
Genre: Jazz
Title: Atlantic Jazz: West Coast
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Real Sound of Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: ECM Selected Signs III-VIII
Genre: Jazz
Title: Original Sound Deluxe Clarinet Masters
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Story 9
Genre: Jazz
Title: Summer Jazz, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Modern Jazz, Volume 27
Genre: Jazz
Title: Gentle Jazz
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Title: Jazz, Vol. 4
Genre: Jazz
Title: Gershwin Jazz
Genre: Jazz, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Cool Jazz (Classic Mood Experience)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz District Cool Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Cool Velvet: Jazz Saxophone Ballads
Genre: Jazz
Title: New Life @ TMD Jazz Edition Vol. 8
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz World Vol. 25
Genre: Jazz
Title: I Love Music! - Jazz Edition Vol. 10
Genre: Jazz
Title: Verve 60 (CD1)
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
Title: Kings Of 50s Jazz
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Jazz, Cool Jazz, Bop
Title: Jazz Saxophone Greats
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Jazz Saxophone Greats 2019
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Feeling Good
Title: TSF 100% Jazz (Vol. 1: Jazz In The City) (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Free Jazz Essentials
Genre: Jazz
Title: Post-Bop Essentials
Genre: Jazz
Title: West Coast Jazz Essentials (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: West Coast Jazz Essentials (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Featuring albums
Title: Hot and Cool Heat (Anita O'Day Sings Buddy Bregman & Jimmy Giuffre Arrangements)
Artist: Anita O'Day
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop
Title: Best from the West: Modern Sounds from California, Vol. 1 - EP
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Jazz
Title: Best from the West - Modern Sounds from California, Vol. 2 - EP
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Jazz
Title: Colombia Jazz All Stars
Artist: Camilo Vásquez / Camilo Vasquez
Genre: Instrumental, Instrumental
