Panorama: Live at the Village Vanguard
Live album by
Jim Hall
ReleasedOctober 28, 1997 (1997-October-28)
RecordedDecember 4 - 8, 1996
Village Vanguard, New York City
GenreJazz
Length1:03:40
LabelTelarc
ProducerJohn Snyder
Jim Hall chronology
Textures
(1997) 		Panorama: Live at the Village Vanguard
(1997) 		By Arrangement
(1998)

Panorama: Live at the Village Vanguard is a 1997 album by American jazz guitarist Jim Hall. It was his twenty-seventh album as bandleader.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[2]

Jim Ferguson, writing for JazzTimes, wrote that the album had a "number of guest musicians, several of whom he [Jim Hall] had really never played with before." He called it "a concept project within the context of a live recording", and said that "the idea behind Panorama is as clever as Hall's playing is brilliant."[3]

Richard S. Ginell of AllMusic wrote that: "Jim Hall's previous two Telarcs...were so adventurous and out-of-perceived-character that this...might seem like a step backwards at a superficial glance." He compared it to "a revolving door full of guest soloists...each one of whom offers a different slant on what jazz ought to be." He finished his review with the remark of "one can only imagine the fascination of the habitually superattentive patrons of the Vanguard at all of this diversity."[1]

Track listing

All songs composed by Jim Hall except where noted.
  1. "Pan-O-Rama" – 8:21
  2. "Little Blues" – 9:03
  3. "The Answer is Yes" (Jane Hall) – 9:09
  4. "Entre Nous" – 4:23
  5. "Furnished Flats" – 6:50
  6. "Something to Wish For" – 4:45
  7. "No You Don't" – 6:40
  8. "Painted Pig" – 7:34
  9. "Here Comes Jane" – 6:55

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Ginell, Richard S. "Panorama: Live at Village Vanguard". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  2. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 630. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  3. ^ Ferguson, Jim. "Jazz Reviews: Panorama Live at the Village Vanguard". JazzTimes. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
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