Night and the City

by Kenny Barron, Charlie Haden

Overview

The third in a series of Charlie Haden duet projects for Verve in the 1990s finds the increasingly nostalgia-minded bass player working New York City's Iridium jazz club with pianist Kenny Barron. Moreover, it is entirely possible that we are getting a skewed view of the gig; according to Haden, he and his co-producer wife Ruth tilted this album heavily in the direction of romantic ballads, eliminating the bebop and avant-garde numbers that the two may have also played at the club. Be that as it may, this is still a thoughtful, intensely musical, sometimes haunting set of performances, with Barron displaying a high level of lyrical sensitivity and Haden applying his massive tone sparingly. Most of the seven tracks are fantasias on well-known standards, although one of the most eloquent performances on the disc is Barron's playing on his own "Twilight Song." If Haden deliberately set out to create a single reflective mood, he certainly succeeded, although those coming to Haden for the first time through this and most of his other '90s CDs would never suspect that this man once played such a fire-breathing role in the jazz avant-garde. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Product Details

Release Date:	03/10/1998
Label:	Verve / Polygram / Universal
UPC:	0731453996120
Rank:	757

Tracks

1. Twilight Song
2. For Heaven's Sake
3. Spring Is Here
4. Body and Soul
5. You Don't Know What Love Is
6. Waltz for Ruth
7. The Very Thought of You

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Charlie Haden   Primary Artist,Bass,Bass (Acoustic)
Kenny Barron   Primary Artist,Piano

Technical Credits

Johnny Green   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Robert Sour   Composer
Arthur Hamilton   Composer
Daniel Richard   Executive Producer
Sherman Edwards & Donald Meyer   Composer
Mark Strand   Poetry
Rafi Zabor   Liner Notes
Don C. Tyler   Mastering
Maureen Murphy   Coordination
Donald Meyer   Composer
Patrice Beausejour   Art Direction
Georgia O'Keeffe   Artwork
Patrick Votan   Release Preparation
Mike Charlasch   Coordination
Sherman Edwards   Composer
Ray Noble   Composer
Gene DePaul   Composer
Kenny Barron   Composer,Performer
John Lamb   Photography
Elise Bretton   Composer
Frank Eyton   Composer
Ruth Cameron   Producer
Don Meyer   Composer
Don Raye   Composer
John W. Green   Composer
Doug McKean   Assistant Engineer
Gene Paul   Composer
Lorenz Hart   Composer
Charlie Haden   Composer,Producer
Jay Newland   Mixing,Engineer
Jean-Philippe Allard   Executive Producer
Edward Heyman   Composer