 |  | Free Association wins Choc de L'ane'e Award
| 4/16/2014 9:07:36 AM - Free Association, the latest recording from Jim and master pianist Geoffrey Keezer has captured the Choc de L'ane'e Award from Jazzman/France. This is the second Choc de L'ane'e Award in a row for Jim.
Free Association features the virtuosic piano styling of Geoffrey Keezer. It was an ArtistShare fan-funded release produced by Brian Camelio.
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Mr. Hall has a technique equivalent to that of any classical guitar soloist and an electronics kit that could out-tech any rock 'n' roller, but his music is strictly jazz.
-- Will Friedwald, The New York Sun
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...Hall and his colleagues - bassist Scott Colley and drummer Lewis Nash - have developed a level of rapport second to none...The superb interplay made it hard to believe this music was being created on the spot, without the benefit of a written score... the three openly exchanged ideas in one poetic dialogue after another...
-- Chuck Obuchowski, The Hartford Courant
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"His intensely intimate music gets under your skin rather than grabbing you by the lapels....Mr. Hall has a sound as recognizable as the voice of a friend. His floating, fine-grained tone is smooth and edgeless, his wide-spaced harmonies subtly oblique."
-- Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
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"Jim Hall is the reigning master of the jazz guitar. This poetic player says more with fewer notes than any living improviser."
-- The New Yorker
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"A master of understatement, Hall is one of jazz's most respected improvisers, an artist who wields his guitar like a paintbrush, shaping and shading each note to achieve just the right hue and texture. Modest and soft-spoken, he has inspired two generations of jazz musicians with his vast harmonic knowledge and restless musical curiosity."
-- Andrew Gilbert, San Jose Mercury News
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"His work speaks as much to the human condiction as any artist past or present, and if one looks and listens attentively, there are great rewards to be found there."
-- Victor Magnani, All About Jazz
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"Mr. Hall's dry-toned guitar playing with its discrete, deliberate notes and sliding chords works like a bluesy telegraph signal."
-- Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
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"Since 1955, Hall, jazz' most lyrical and harmonically fertile guitarist, has jousted with top jazz stars like Ella Fitzgerald and Sonny Rollins. And his approach has shaped a younger generation of guitar heroes, from Metheny to Bill Frisell."
-- Gene Santoro, New York Daily News
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