The Jimmy Giuffre 3

THE WILLIAM CLAXTON COLLECTION
180-GRAM PURE VIRGIN VINYL LPs IN GATEFOLD PACKAGING

Jimmy Giuffre’s trio work with Jim Hall stands by itself as a unique collection of intimate chamber music. Interviewed many years later, Jim Hall remembered his first encounter with Giuffre: “There were these jam sessions on Sunday afternoon at a club in L.A. I think it was called Sardi’s or something like that and I remember I met Giuffre. He’s from Texas, of course. I said, ‘Mr. Giuffre’ or ‘Jimmy’ or whatever I said, ‘Boy it’s such an honor to meet you. I really love your playing and your writing.’ I said, ‘It’s really a pleasure.’ And he says, ‘Same to you.’ Yeah, I think I probably learned more from Jimmy, in a lot of ways, than anybody else. It was a great experience... Jimmy is a very schooled musician... He had a sense of the trio that there should never be just a clarinet out front and we were the accompaniment.” Even though Giuffre lived until April 24, 2008 and Jim Hall died on December 10, 2013, their paths would never cross again (at least on recordings) after their collaboration on a Teddy Charles album taped on May 6, 1963. This seems a bit odd considering the extent of their work together from 1956 up to that point.