These Rooms

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These Rooms
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Studio album by
Released1988
RecordedFebruary 9 & 10, 1988
StudioSorcerer Sound, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length66:45
Label Denon
CY-30002
Producer Al Evers, Herb Wong
Jim Hall chronology
Jim Hall's Three
(1986)
These Rooms
(1988)
All Across the City
(1989)

These Rooms is an album by guitarist Jim Hall recorded in 1988 and released on the Japanese Denon label. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic awarded the album 412 stars, with the review by Ken Dryden stating, "This 1988 studio date is one of the overlooked treasures in the considerable discography of Jim Hall ... a delight from start to finish". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Jim Hall except where noted

  1. "With a Song in My Heart" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 8:22
  2. "Cross Court" – 5:11
  3. "Something Tells Me" – 5:10
  4. "Bimini" – 9:19
  5. "All Too Soon" (Duke Ellington, Carl Sigman) – 4:00
  6. "These Rooms" – 11:25
  7. "Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) – 4:03
  8. "My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 6:22
  9. "Where or When" (Rodgers, Hart) – 5:49
  10. "From Now On" (Tom Harrell) – 7:04

Personnel

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References

  1. Jim Hall: album details accessed November 7, 2019
  2. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. Jim Hall: These Rooms – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved November 8, 2019.