''Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Twelve'' is an album of solo performances by jazz pianist

Barry Harris Barry Doyle Harris (December 15, 1929 – December 8, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. He was an exponent of the bebop style. Life and career Harris was born in Detroit, Michigan, on December ...

, recorded in 1990.

Music and recording

The album was recorded in March 1990 at the

Maybeck Recital Hall Maybeck Recital Hall, also known as Maybeck Studio for Performing Arts, is located inside the Kennedy-Nixon House located at 1537 Euclid Avenue in Berkeley, California, United States. It was built in 1914 by Bernard Maybeck. The hall seats up to 50 ...

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. The performances are chiefly

bebop Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early-to-mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumen ...

-based, although some of the compositions are not.

Release and reception

''Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Twelve'' was released by

Concord Records Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord and based in Los Angeles, California. Concord Records was launched in 1995 as an imprint designed to reach beyond the company's foundational Concord Jazz label. The label's artists have ...

. ''

The Penguin Guide to Jazz ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which were (at the time of publication) currently available in Europe or the United States. The first nine editions were compiled by ...

'' wrote that Harris "finds just the right pace and programme".

Track listing

#"It Could Happen to You" #"All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" #"She" #"Cherokee" #"Gone Again" #"Lucky Day" #"It Never Entered My Mind/Meet the Flintstones/I Love Lucy" #"Would You Like to Take a Walk?" #"I'll Keep Loving You" #"

Parker's Mood "Parker's Mood" is a piece of music originally performed by Charlie Parker as an improvised blues in 1948. Vocalese lyrics were later written and recorded by King Pleasure and Eddie Jefferson. Original recording Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker reco ...

Personnel

* Barry Harris – piano

References

{{Authority control 1991 live albums Albums recorded at the Maybeck Recital Hall Concord Records live albums Solo piano jazz albums