Soft Hands | ||||
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Released | February 6, 2007 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 65:21 | |||
Label | SteepleChase | |||
Ron McClure chronology | ||||
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Soft Hands is a 2007 jazz album featuring trio led by bassist Ron McClure and also featuring tenor saxophonist Rich Perry and multi-instrumentalist George Colligan, here playing piano. [1]
The album features eight mid-tempo tracks and ballads penned by McClure. Released on SteepleChase (SCCD 31615), the album is being distributed by Discovery.
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Source | Rating |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The album is listed as one of the "Core Collection" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. [2] In the later The Penguin Jazz Guide the authors reflected "These eight tunes are the work of a mature and assured composer and the drummer less format keeps the tempos open enough to allow at least some of the songs to change direction internally" [3]
JazzTimes singled out the title track, "Fortune Gardens", "I Never Knew" and "Gates of Saffron" as particularly notable, commenting that with these songs "the trio achieves a collective weaving of lines that is memorable, each player feeding off the ideas of the others", lifting it into the realm of "music of the contemplative." [4]
All tracks written by Ron McClure
Soft Hands | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | February 6, 2007 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 65:21 | |||
Label | SteepleChase | |||
Ron McClure chronology | ||||
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Soft Hands is a 2007 jazz album featuring trio led by bassist Ron McClure and also featuring tenor saxophonist Rich Perry and multi-instrumentalist George Colligan, here playing piano. [1]
The album features eight mid-tempo tracks and ballads penned by McClure. Released on SteepleChase (SCCD 31615), the album is being distributed by Discovery.
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The album is listed as one of the "Core Collection" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. [2] In the later The Penguin Jazz Guide the authors reflected "These eight tunes are the work of a mature and assured composer and the drummer less format keeps the tempos open enough to allow at least some of the songs to change direction internally" [3]
JazzTimes singled out the title track, "Fortune Gardens", "I Never Knew" and "Gates of Saffron" as particularly notable, commenting that with these songs "the trio achieves a collective weaving of lines that is memorable, each player feeding off the ideas of the others", lifting it into the realm of "music of the contemplative." [4]
All tracks written by Ron McClure