Landscape (Kenny Barron album)

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Landscape
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Studio album by Kenny Barron
Released 1985
Recorded October 5, 1984
Studio Vanguard Studio, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length47:16
Label Baystate
RJL-8103
Producer Masahiko Yuh, Makoso Kimata and Fumimaru Kawashima
Kenny Barron chronology
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Landscape
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Autumn in New York
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Landscape is an album by pianist Kenny Barron which was recorded in 1984 and first released on the Japanese Baystate label. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Kenny Barron American pianist

Kenny Barron is an American jazz pianist, who has appeared on hundreds of recordings as leader and sideman and is considered one of the most influential mainstream jazz pianists since the bebop era.

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Reception

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In his review on Allmusic, Ken Dryden stated "Kenny Barron emerged during the 1980s as one of the dominant pianists in his field, recording a series of first-rate releases for a variety of labels in the U.S., Europe, and Japan ... This first-rate effort will be appreciated by any fan of the great Kenny Barron". [6]

Track listing

All compositions by Kenny Barron except where noted.

  1. "Hush-a-Bye" (Traditional) – 7:46
  2. "Spring Is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 8:15
  3. "Kōjō no Tsuki" (Rentarō Taki, Bansui Tsuchii) – 8:40
  4. "Ringo Oiwake" (Fujio Ozawa, Masao Yoneyama) – 6:02
  5. "Calypso" – 4:39
  6. "Dear Old Stockholm" (Traditional) – 5:56
  7. "Sunset" – 5:58

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Cecil McBee American bassist

Cecil McBee is an American jazz bassist, one of the most influential in the history of jazz. McBee has recorded as a leader only a handful of times since the 1970s, but has contributed as a sideman to a number of jazz albums.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. Jazzlists: Baystate Records LP discography accessed January 9, 2017
  2. Kenny Barron Catalog accessed January 9, 2017
  3. Kenny Barron: recordings accessed January 9, 2017
  4. Enciclopedia del Jazz: Kenny Barron accessed January 9, 2017
  5. Fitzgerald, M. Kenny Barron Discography, accessed January 20, 2019
  6. 1 2 Dryden, Ken. Kenny Barron – Landscape: Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 9, 2017.