Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Eight is an album of solo performances by jazz pianist Gerald Wiggins, recorded in 1990.
| Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Eight | |
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| Live album by | |
| Recorded | August 1990 |
| Venue | Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Label | Concord |
Music and recording edit
The album was recorded in August 1990 at the Maybeck Recital Hall in Berkeley, California.[1] The material is mostly jazz standards.[2]
Release and reception edit
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [1] |
Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Eight was released by Concord Records.[1] The AllMusic reviewer commented that "No matter how familiar the standard, [...] Wiggins finds a fresh approach while retaining the lyrical essence of each piece."[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it in 1992 as "arguably his best-ever record".[1] A reviewer for CD Review Digest called Wiggins "one of the most schooled and versatile pianists playing jazz today," and wrote: "His ballads are beautiful, his swingers swing, and his treatment of standards is so refreshing that you might almost be hearing them for the first time."[3] Bill Kohlhaase of the Los Angeles Times stated that "There's a bit of Art Tatum to be heard" on the album," and noted that Wiggins "brings some of the same strolling rhythms, a rich harmonic sense and the kind of playful, inventive embellishments to his standard treatments that Tatum... brought to his music."[4]
Track listing edit
- "Yesterdays"
- "My Ship"
- "All the Things You Are"
- "Night Mist Blues"
- "Body and Soul"
- "Easy to Love"
- "You're Mine You"
- "I Should Care"
- "Don't Blame Me"
- "Take the 'A' Train"
- "Berkeley Blues"
- "Lullaby of the Leaves"
Personnel edit
- Gerald Wiggins – piano
References edit
- ^ a b c d Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1992). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette (1st ed.). Penguin. p. 1143. ISBN 0-14-015364-0.
- ^ a b c Dryden, Ken "Gerald Wiggins – Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Vol. 8". AllMusic. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
- ^ "Reviews". CD Review Digest. Vol. 6. 1992. p. 580.
- ^ Kohlhaase, Bill (July 12, 1991). "He's Got His Own Work to Do: Gerald Wiggins, Accompanist to Many, Concentrates on His Music". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 10, 2023.