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Born: December 4, 1930
Jim Hall , born in Buffalo, and educated at the
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Cleveland Institute of Music, moved to Los Angeles where
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he began to attract national, and then international,
attention in the late 1950s. By 1960 Jim had arrived in
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New York to work with Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer,
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among others. His live and recorded collaborations with
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Bill Evans, Paul Desmond, and Ron Carter, are legendary.
Not only is Jim Hall one of the jazz world's favorite
guitarists, but he has also earned critical acclaim for his
skills as a composer and arranger. The first formal
recognition came in 1997, when Jim won the New York
Jazz Critics Circle Award for Best Jazz
Composer/Arranger. His pieces for string, brass, and
vocal ensembles can be heard on his  Textures and  By
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Arrangement recordings. His original composition,
 Quartet Plus Four, a piece for jazz quartet augmented
by the Zapolski string quartet, was debuted in Denmark
during the concert and ceremony where he was awarded
the coveted Jazzpar Prize, and later released on CD.
His most recent large-scale composition was a concerto
for guitar and orchestra, commissioned by Towson
University in Maryland for The First World Guitar
Congressżÿ, which was debuted in June 2004 with the
Baltimore Symphony. The title of the work, żÿPeace
Movement,żÿ is indicative of Jimżÿs desire to contribute
to world peace through his music. He views music as a
way of bonding people together and crossing barriers, be
they barriers of geography, ideology, religion, or other
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discriminations. In accepting the NEA Jazz Masters
Fellowship award in January 2004, he said, żÿThe women
and men who have received this award in the past have
spread peace and love throughout the world, something
that governments might emulate. I am pleased to be one
of the peacemakers.żÿ
In addition to the recent focus on orchestral and choral
"The Monument (Soldiers And
Sailors)"
composition, Jim remains active as a player, working and
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recording with a variety of ensembles all around the
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world. In addition to working with his trio, Jim likes to
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spice up the mix with various guests. From time to time
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you might hear Joe Lovano, Greg Osby, the New York
Voices, Kenny Barron, Pat Metheny, Slide Hampton, and
others, working for a night or two with Jim's groups. In
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fact, several of these guests can be heard on a live
recording titled  Panorama.żÿ On occasion, these alliances
lead to more intensive collaborative projects such as the
żÿJim Hall & Bassesżÿ recording featuring Scott Colley ,
Charlie Haden , Dave Holland, George Mraz , and
Christian McBride , and the  duets project with Pat
Metheny.
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CDs) Jimżÿs latest project, żÿMagic Meeting,żÿ a CD featuring
Wildflowers
the Jim Hall Trio with Scott Colley and Lewis Nash, was
recorded live at the Village Vanguard in New York City at
the end of April 2004. Jimżÿs new website
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(www.jimhallmusic.com) enables him to share with his
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audience a personal view of his creative process, in
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(Jazz Excursion Records)
addition to the finished product. Via the web, audiences
can participate, not just by purchasing the new CD, but
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by żÿbeing there,żÿ behind the scenes, so to speak,
witnessing Jim prepare for a project, meeting the players,
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hearing the outtakes, and more.
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Some years ago, Guitar Player magazine quoted Jim as
saying  I do feel good about my playing. The instrument
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keeps me humble. Sometimes I pick it up and it seems
to say `No, you can't play today.' I keep at it anyway
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though. Jim and his wife, Jane, who is both a
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psychoanalyst and a songwriter, live in New York Cityżÿs
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Greenwich Village with their dog, Django. This bio was
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by Devra Hall, and permission is granted for its use in
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Mr. Hall has a technique equivalent to that of
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any classical guitar soloist and an electronics kit
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that could out-tech any rock 'n' roller, but his
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music is strictly jazz. -- Will Friedwald, The New
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interplay made it hard to believe this music was
being created on the spot, without the benefit
of a written score... the three openly exchanged
ideas in one poetic dialogue after another... --
Chuck Obuchowski, The Hartford Courant
 His intensely intimate music gets under your
skin rather than grabbing you by the
lapels....Mr. Hall has a sound as recognizable as
the voice of a friend. His floating, fine-grained
tone is smooth and edgeless, his wide-spaced
harmonies subtly oblique. -- Terry Teachout,
Wall Street Journal
 Jim Hall is the reigning master of the jazz
guitar. This poetic player says more with fewer
notes than any living improviser. -- The New
Yorker
 A master of understatement, Hall is one of
jazz's most respected improvisers, an artist who
wields his guitar like a paintbrush, shaping and
shading each note to achieve just the right hue
and texture. Modest and soft-spoken, he has
inspired two generations of jazz musicians with
his vast harmonic knowledge and restless
musical curiosity. -- Andrew Gilbert, San Jose
Mercury News
 His work speaks as much to the human
condiction as any artist past or present, and if
one looks and listens attentively, there are
great rewards to be found there. -- Victor
Magnani, All About Jazz
 Mr. Hall's dry-toned guitar playing with its
discrete, deliberate notes and sliding chords
works like a bluesy telegraph signal. -- Ben
Ratliff, The New York Times
 Since 1955, Hall, jazz' most lyrical and
harmonically fertile guitarist, has jousted with
top jazz stars like Ella Fitzgerald and Sonny
Rollins. And his approach has shaped a younger
generation of guitar heroes, from Metheny to
Bill Frisell. -- Gene Santoro, New York Daily
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