Bill Mays at Maybeck | |
Type: | Live |
Artist: | Bill Mays |
Cover: | Bill Mays at Maybeck album cover.png |
Recorded: | September 1992 |
Venue: | Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, California |
Genre: | Jazz |
Label: | Concord |
Producer: | Carl Jefferson |
Bill Mays at Maybeck: Maybeck Recital Hall Series Volume Twenty-Six is an album of solo performances by jazz pianist Bill Mays.
The album was recorded at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California[1] in September 1992. Most of the material is swing standards.
The AllMusic reviewer recommended one track in particular: "'A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' (which starts and ends with a very impressionistic fantasy, making one wonder if its swinging middle section was indeed a dream) is most memorable". The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote that the standards were played with imagination, but that some of the other tracks were lacking expression.