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Soft Hands (album)

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Soft Hands
Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 6, 2007 (2007-02-06)
GenreJazz
Length65:21
LabelSteepleChase
Ron McClure chronology
Jam Session, Vol. 16
(2005)
Soft Hands
(2007)
New Moon
(2009)

Soft Hands is a 2007 jazz album featuring trio led by bassist Ron McClure and also featuring tenor saxophonist Rich Perry and multi-instrumentalist George Colligan, here playing piano.[1]

The album features eight mid-tempo tracks and ballads penned by McClure. Released on SteepleChase (SCCD 31615), the album is being distributed by Discovery.

Reception

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[2]

The album is listed as one of the "Core Collection" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings.[2] In the later The Penguin Jazz Guide the authors reflected "These eight tunes are the work of a mature and assured composer and the drummer less format keeps the tempos open enough to allow at least some of the songs to change direction internally"[3]

JazzTimes singled out the title track, "Fortune Gardens", "I Never Knew" and "Gates of Saffron" as particularly notable, commenting that with these songs "the trio achieves a collective weaving of lines that is memorable, each player feeding off the ideas of the others", lifting it into the realm of "music of the contemplative."[4]

Track listing

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All tracks written by Ron McClure

  1. "Life Took Over" – 7:58
  2. "Altered Bells" – 7:33
  3. "May Day" – 7:10
  4. "Fortune Gardens" – 8:28
  5. "I Never Knew" – 6:54
  6. "Soft Hands" – 7:08
  7. "Gates of Saffron" – 8:52
  8. "Marble Room" – 11:18

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ "Soft Hands". AllMusic. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 967. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  3. ^ Morton, Brian; Richard Cook (2010) [1992]. The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 712–713. ISBN 978-0-14-104831-4.
  4. ^ JazzTimes, Volume 38, Issues 1-5. Jazztimes. 2008. p. 118.