This effervescent, occasionally haunting chamber-jazz set presents five remarkable Gary McFarland (1933-71) compositions performed by a small group of studio musicians, highlighted by the introspective pianist Bill Evans (1929-80). The two soloists are featured alongside Jim Hall on guitar (who also gets the occasional solo), Phil Woods and Spencer Sinatra on reeds, Richard Davis on…
Claus Ogerman on Verve
Some two decades ago, I worked on the four-disc boxset Claus Ogerman: The Man Behind the Music. The esteemed Gene Lees (1928-2010) contributed a typically lovely and well-informed text to the CD while Ogerman (1930-2016) himself chose much of the material and, remarkably, commented on each of the set’s individual tracks. I worked on what…