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Steve Davis Meets Hank Jones, Volume 1<\/em><\/strong> features the legendary pianist in one of his final recordings on a poetic and interactive session with leader\/trombonist Steve Davis and bassist Peter Washington<\/strong><\/p>\n

In June 2008, pianist Hank Jones<\/strong>, trombonist Steve Davis<\/strong>, and bassist Peter Washington<\/strong> recorded this poetic, interactive, impeccably executed, never-before-released recital, titled Steve Davis Meets Hank Jones<\/strong> shortly after Jones had undergone quadruple bypass heart surgery at the end of 2006 and a month before he turned 90. Not only is it one of Jones\u2019 final sessions, but it is one of the finest of his extraordinary career.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one of the greatest musical experiences of my life,\u201d says Davis of his sixth Smoke Sessions leader release. \u201cWherever I wanted to go, Hank was there \u2013 not in your way, but ready to support you, to take you somewhere. It was the essence of jazz \u2013 that thing that happens between us when we play and create and speak the language in real-time. My idea was that it would be like Hank and Peter playing duo at Bradley\u2019s (the iconic Greenwich Village piano saloon where Jones played regularly until the early 1990s), with me sitting in, trying not to mess it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result has Davis improvising melodic variations with an enveloping, vocalized tone, phrasing long, logical lines with fluid propulsion, propelled by Washington\u2019s elegant, unerringly kinetic flow. The music represents Jones\u2019 genius perhaps more successfully than any other album he made during the final decade of his life. \u201cHank embodied the history of jazz,\u201d Davis says. \u201cIt encompasses this decades-long span of jazz music, and somehow is distilled into this absolute direct concept. When you hear him play stride piano, the blues, the American Songbook, swing, bebop. You hear the French Impressionists, Chopin. You hear modern jazz, or perhaps what influenced pianists like Herbie Hancock or Bill Evans or McCoy Tyner, all the pianists we regard as the ones who\u2019ve led us into the future. Hank is all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Davis Meets Hank Jones, Volume 1 features the legendary pianist in one of his final recordings on a poetic and interactive session with leader\/trombonist Steve Davis and bassist Peter Washington In June 2008, pianist Hank Jones, trombonist Steve Davis, and bassist Peter Washington recorded this poetic, interactive, impeccably executed, never-before-released recital, titled Steve Davis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"product_cat":[43],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\nSteve Davis Meets Hank Jones, Volume 1 - Smoke Sessions Records<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smokesessionsrecords.com\/shop\/albums\/steve-davis-meets-hank-jones-volume-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Steve Davis Meets Hank Jones, Volume 1 - 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