Soft Hands (album)
| Soft Hands | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | February 6, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 65:21 | |||
| Label | SteepleChase | |||
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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[edit]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| 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[edit]
All tracks written by Ron McClure
- "Life Took Over" – 7:58
- "Altered Bells" – 7:33
- "May Day" – 7:10
- "Fortune Gardens" – 8:28
- "I Never Knew" – 6:54
- "Soft Hands" – 7:08
- "Gates of Saffron" – 8:52
- "Marble Room" – 11:18
Personnel[edit]
- George Colligan – Piano
- Ron McClure – Bass, liner Notes
- Rich Perry – Sax (tenor)
- Jon Rosenberg – Audio engineer
- Nils Winther – Photography
References[edit]
- ^ "Soft Hands". AllMusic. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ JazzTimes, Volume 38, Issues 1-5. Jazztimes. 2008. p. 118.