These Rooms

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These Rooms

Studio album by

Jim Hall

Released

1988

Recorded

February 9 & 10, 1988

Studio

Sorcerer Sound, New York City

Genre

Jazz

Length

66:45

Label

Denon
CY-30002

Producer

Al Evers, Herb Wong

Jim Hall chronology

Jim Hall's Three
(1986)

These Rooms
(1988)

All Across the City
(1989)

These Rooms is an album by guitarist Jim Hall recorded in 1988 and released on the Japanese Denon label.^[1]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]

AllMusic awarded the album 41⁄2 stars, with the review by Ken Dryden stating, "This 1988 studio date is one of the overlooked treasures in the considerable discography of Jim Hall ... a delight from start to finish".^[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Jim Hall except where noted

"With a Song in My Heart" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 8:22
"Cross Court" – 5:11
"Something Tells Me" – 5:10
"Bimini" – 9:19
"All Too Soon" (Duke Ellington, Carl Sigman) – 4:00
"These Rooms" – 11:25
"Darn That Dream" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) – 4:03
"My Funny Valentine" (Rodgers, Hart) – 6:22
"Where or When" (Rodgers, Hart) – 5:49
"From Now On" (Tom Harrell) – 7:04

Personnel

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Jim Hall – guitar
Tom Harrell – trumpet, flugelhorn
Steve LaSpina – bass
Joey Baron – drums

References

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^ Jim Hall: album details accessed November 7, 2019
^ ^a ^b Dryden, Ken. Jim Hall: These Rooms – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 8, 2019.

Jim Hall

Studio albums

Jazz Guitar (1957)
The Street Swingers (1957)
Jazz Abstractions (1960)
Undercurrent (with Bill Evans, 1962)
Two Jims and Zoot (1964)
Intermodulation (with Bill Evans, 1966)
It's Nice to Be With You (1969)
Where Would I Be? (1971)
Concierto (1975)
Commitment (1976)
Big Blues (1978)
First Edition (1981)
Studio Trieste (1982) (with Chet Baker and Hubert Laws)
Jim Hall's Three (1986)
These Rooms (with Tom Harrell, 1988)
Jim Hall & Pat Metheny (1999)
Jim Hall & Basses (2001)

Live albums

Alone Together (with Ron Carter, 1972)
Jim Hall Live! (1975)
Jim Hall/Red Mitchell (1978)
Live at Village West (with Ron Carter, 1982)
Telephone (with Ron Carter, 1984)
Power of Three (with Michel Petrucciani and Wayne Shorter, 1986)
Panorama: Live at the Village Vanguard (1997)
Charlie Haden/Jim Hall (with Charlie Haden, 2014)

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