Alone Together: Essential Late Night Jazz

Performer: Various Artists
Artist: Jim Hall; Benny Golson
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Focusing mostly on the smooth, romantic, sax-heavy post-bop (though there is still plenty of piano heard here, as well as some guitar and vibraphone), Alone Together: Essential Late Night Jazz compiles 12 songs, all of them bigger ones from the artists' collections. From Pat Martino's "Dreamland" and Wallace Roney's "Alone Together" to Bud Shank's "Never Never Land," and Larry Coryell's "Yesterdays," the mood of the album -- and hopefully the night -- is seductive and smooth, bordering on the overly sentimental at times (James Moody's cover of Henry Mancini's "Simplicity and Beauty," for example), but it's consistent and romantic, and probably exactly what someone who's looking for "essential late night jazz" would want. And considering those limitations, this is some of the best. ~ Marisa Brown

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