Artist:Jim Hall f/Mike Stern
Song:Stern Stuff
Album:Dialogues
As one of the most accomplished and versatile jazz guitarists, everyone in jazz wanted to record with Jim Hall. Pat Metheny recorded several albums with Hall and they did a tour. Mike Stern idolized Hall so he wanted to work with him too. He finally got to do that on the 1995 album Dialogues. When Hall signed with Telarc in 1993, they allowed him to do what he wanted. He wrote and produced Dialogues with his wife Jane Hall. His band was Scott Colley on bass and Andy Watson on drums. The album concept was to bring in special guests and for Hall to write songs for them. So Stern Stuff was a new song written for Stern. Stern appeared on one other song. Other guests were Gil Goldstein on accordion, Tom Harrell on flugelhorn, Bill Frisell on guitar and Joe Lovano on tenor sax. Dialogues is available on CD. When Telarc closed, Concord acquired the recordings. So in 2006, Concord released the 2CD comp Hallmarks which mostly covers his Telarc recordings. Hall only recorded a couple of albums for Concord in the 80s. I recommend the original album. Hall recorded for so many different labels that there is no career spanning comp. I thought this was interesting because it was Stern's only time recording with Hall so it was a big deal for him. Here's a video for Stern Stuff by Jim Hall featuring Mike Stern.
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