![]() ![]() It made me immediately feel like I had to go home and re-investigate that recording and that performance. As we sat together talking, John played for me a perfect impression of Jim's melody statement of "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You." Then, sometime later during our conversation, John launched into his own fantastic version of Hall's comping on the famous version of the Rodgers & Hart classic standard, " My Funny Valentine." He had it completely nailed: the feel, the swing, the sense of a walking bass - well, just everything. One of my earliest memories of exchanges with other guitarists, after having moved to New York at the dawn of the '70s, was sitting together with John Abercrombie and talking about Jim Hall and his style of playing.
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