Soft Hands (album)

Soft Hands
Studio album by Ron McClure
Released February 6, 2007 (2007-02-06)
Genre Jazz
Length 65:21
Label SteepleChase
Ron McClure chronology
Jam Session, Vol. 16
(2005)		 Soft Hands
(2007)		 New Moon
(2009)

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.

Reception

The album is listed as one of the "Core Collection" albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz.[2] 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."[3]

Track listing

All songs written by Ron McClure

  1. "Life Took Over" — 7:58
  2. "Altered Bells" — 7:33
  3. "May Day" — 7:10
  4. "Fortune Gardens" — 8:28
  5. "I Never Knew" — 6:54
  6. "Soft Hands" — 7:08
  7. "Gates of Saffron" — 8:52
  8. "Marble Room" — 11:18

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Soft Hands". AllMusic. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 967. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  3. ↑ JazzTimes, Volume 38, Issues 1-5. Jazztimes. 2008. p. 118.
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