Specifications:
electric fingerstyle solo guitar (w/stand-up bass accompaniment)
category: instrumental jazz / easy listening
Album review:
"What a beautiful set of immaculate improvisations! God, the sound is so good! Usually upright bass is recorded live so that it brings out all the finger noise. Not so here. So clean, so sweet. If you are not familiar with Lenny Breau, what a treat these 2 CD's can be for you. Here using a great sounding custom 7-string guitar with a high 'A' string! Considered by the best of the jazz and country worlds to be the best living guitarist in his lifetime, he lives up to his reputation here. I have everything I can get that Lenny did, and this is my favorite alongside "The Complete Livingroom Tapes." He had incredible technique and prowess, truly killer chops. On this recording he has deepened and grown beyond anything purely physical or technical about music on a guitar. He comunicates with heartfelt passion and soul, so fully, so clearly, so cleanly, and so...transcendently. It's hard to believe how beautiful this music is. God, I love it! Please invite Lenny to live on in your life and ears, too." -- Drew A. G. Engman (Pinon Hills, CA)
CD Track Listing
Disc 1
1. THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE (Jones / Sykes) (6:38)
2. IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW (Dameron / Sigman) (6:01)
3. ON GREEN DOLPHIN STREET (Kaper / Washington) (8:40)
4. SUMMERTIME (Ira & George Gershwin / Washington) (6:40)
5. QUIET & BLUE (Lenny Breau) (2:52)
6. ALL BLUES (Miles Davis) (7:41)
7. I FALL IN LOVE TOO EASILY (Kahn / Styne) (6:55)
8. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE (Hammerstein / Kern) (9:04)
9. MY FOOLISH HEART (Washington / Young) (7:42)
Total timing: 62:16
Disc 2
2. BLUES IN MY CASE (Breau / Young) (5:20)
3. MY FUNNY VALENTINE (Hart / Rogers) (10:32)
4. WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE? (Cole Porter) (7:25)
5. BEAUTIFUL LOVE (Gillespie / King / Alstyne / Young) (8:14)
6. TWO LONELY PEOPLE (Bill Evans) (8:15)
7. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU (Gordon / Warren) (7:05)
8. RIOT-CHORUS (Randolf / Garland) (2:43)
Total timing: 63:04
Label/No: Guitarchives 0001 (Canadian issue)
Release date: 1995
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