Sunshine of My Soul: Live at the Keystone Korner
| Sunshine of My Soul: Live at the Keystone Korner | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | February 20, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | June 1978 | |||
| Venue | Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 59:51 | |||
| Label | HighNote HCD 7169 | |||
| Producer | Joe Fields | |||
| Jaki Byard chronology | ||||
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Sunshine of My Soul: Live at the Keystone Korner is an album of a live solo performance by American jazz pianist Jaki Byard recorded in 1978 and released as a CD on the HighNote label in 2007.[1]
Reception
[edit]| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [3] |
AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek states, "Byard was a true giant of jazz and this set, in excellent sound, displays all of the reasons".[2] All About Jazz's George Kanzler noted "Byard was at his uninhibited best as a solo pianist and this CD unearths a sterling solo set recorded in 1978 at a San Francisco jazz club".[4]
Track listing
[edit]All compositions by Jaki Byard except as indicated
- "Tribute to the Ticklers" - 3:46
- "Charles Mingus Medley: Fables of Faubus/Peggy's Blue Skylight/So Long Eric" (Charles Mingus) ["So Long Eric" is not listed] - 6:27
- "Hazy Eve" - 6:43
- "Spinning Wheel" (David Clayton-Thomas) - 4:15
- "Excerpts from Songs of Proverbs" - 6:44
- "Boogie Woogie In and Out" - 3:59
- "Emil" - 4:27
- "Bésame Mucho" (Consuelo Velázquez) - 8:37
- "Sunshine" - 5:15
- "Two Different Worlds" (Al Frisch, Sid Wayne) - 5:05
- "European Episodes" - 4:33
Personnel
[edit]- Jaki Byard – piano
References
[edit]- ^ HighNote discography accessed August 24, 2014
- ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed August 24, 2014
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Kanzler, G., All About Jazz review, March 8, 2008