Search - Various Artists :: Ballads in Jazz 1930-1943

Someone somewhere said that ballads sound easy to play but the fact is that they're difficult. Something to do with the slow tempo being a potential trap for the unwary. Of course, no one on these 36 tracks falls into that one. Mostly, these are jazz musicians enjoying good and familiar tunes on which they can weave attractive embellishments. Just about everything is or should be familiar and to talk about it all is unnecessary. The pleasures abound: Hawkins, Berry, Freeman, Webster, Young, Bechet, Hodges, Teagarden, Holiday, Anderson, Cole, Fitzgerald, Armstrong, Sinatra, etc. You can't fault it at all, really.