Duologues album cover
Duologues

Enrico Pieranunzi , Jim Hall

2005
C.A.M. Jazz

Most of guitarist Jim Hall’s duo albums stay fairly close to the jazz mainstream. This one, on which he teams up with pianist Enrico Pieranunzi, is a bit of an outlier. The music they make together isn’t exactly “outside” (as the jazz cats say), but some of it is pretty spiky and some of the change-ups are startling – check the transition from the angular “Carefull” [sic] to the sweetly balladic “From E. to C.,” for example. The tracks titled “Duologue” seem to be duo improvisations; everything sounds like a spirited and friendly conversation.

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