Jim McNeely at Maybeck explained

Jim McNeely at Maybeck
Type:	Live
Artist:	Jim McNeely
Cover:	Jim_McNeely_at_Maybeck.jpg
Recorded:	January 1992
Venue:	Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, California
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Concord

Jim McNeely at Maybeck: Maybeck Recital Hall Series Volume Twenty is an album of solo performances by jazz pianist Jim McNeely.

Music and recording

The album was recorded at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California^[1] in January 1992. McNeely plays "There Will Never Be Another You" in all twelve keys.

Release and reception

The AllMusic review concluded: "Sometimes the inspiration level is uneven, but the payoff is high when all cylinders are pumping." The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote of McNeely that "for all the clarity of his touch, he takes in more of the keyboard in each improvisation than many do over a whole recital". Pianist Liam Noble described the performance of "'Round Midnight" as "updating the chord sequence to a kind of post-Bill Evans modality that only unsettle at the very edges of the image".^[2]

Track listing

1. "Introductory Announcement" – 0:12
2. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) – 5:14
3. "Zingaro" (Antônio Carlos Jobim) – 8:58
4. "Bye-Ya" (Thelonious Monk) – 6:46
5. "'Round Midnight" (Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernard Hanighen) – 7:39
6. "Un Poco Loco" (Bud Powell) – 5:51
7. "Touch" (Jim McNeely) – 8:41
8. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 6:42
9. "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) – 8:21
10. "Breaking up, Breaking Out" (McNeely) – 6:33

Personnel

• Jim McNeely – piano

Notes and References

1. Web site: Solo Jazz Piano at Maybeck Recital Hall: A Treasure Hunt Remembered . Asher . Don . Jazz Profiles . July 24, 2013 . October 28, 2018 .
2. Web site: Noble . Liam . Liam Noble (musician) . March 9, 2023 . Liam Noble Writes About the Concord 'Live at Maybeck Recital Hall' Series (Part 2 of 4, 'Round Midnight') . London Jazz News . March 15, 2023.