Label: Challenge Records
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917328028
Catalog number: CR 73280
Releasedate: 30-10-09
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917328028
Releasedate: 30-10-09
Maarten van der Grinten and Jesse van Ruller delivered a classic here. This CD guarantees fifty minutes of enjoying and sometimes sheer laughter, because these guys have a sense of humour too.
(Ton Ouwehand, Jazz Nu-jan.2000)
(Ton Ouwehand, Jazz Nu-jan.2000)
- Reissue of a celebrated 1999 recording (A-Records AL73191)
- Two of the very top of Dutch Jazz Guitar players in duet and solo
- Nine songs including originals, Cole Porter and Fred Astaire classics
- Two added bonus tracks: Lullaby of the Leaves (Bernice Petkere) and Maarten van der Grinten's Ego Dot Com
Maarten van der Grinten - guitar, cavaquinho | Jesse van Ruller - guitar, acoustic guitars.
In 1999 two of Holland's leading jazz guitarists met each other several times on stage in a duo setting. From the very beginning it was clear that the complete sound, the clarity of communication and the individual capacities of the two players were making up for a band.
Their first CD underlines the right of existence of this two-men band as it explores the sound range of the combination of two guitars - never losing melodic content.
It is adventurous and yet agreeable and should help the jazz guitar - out of the jazz guitar ghetto - into the ears of all music lovers, not only guitar players.This duo recording is a celebration of Two: Soloing and accompanying is equally divided.
There are two of the most beautiful songs of Cole Porter (You Do Something To Me & Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye), two gems of Fred Astaire movies (I Won’t Dance & Too Late Now), two acoustic songs for little men (Little Man You’ve Had a busy Day & Angel Fallen Again –for Maarten’s ever falling son), two grooving originals (New Feet & Rul Grint) and a two-in-one blues (Freight Trane & Chi Chi, interwoven).
Each song tells a story of it’s own, nine stories altogether told by Van der Grinten and Van Ruller.
In 1999 two of Holland's leading jazz guitarists met each other several times on stage in a duo setting. From the very beginning it was clear that the complete sound, the clarity of communication and the individual capacities of the two players were making up for a band.
Their first CD underlines the right of existence of this two-men band as it explores the sound range of the combination of two guitars - never losing melodic content.
It is adventurous and yet agreeable and should help the jazz guitar - out of the jazz guitar ghetto - into the ears of all music lovers, not only guitar players.This duo recording is a celebration of Two: Soloing and accompanying is equally divided.
There are two of the most beautiful songs of Cole Porter (You Do Something To Me & Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye), two gems of Fred Astaire movies (I Won’t Dance & Too Late Now), two acoustic songs for little men (Little Man You’ve Had a busy Day & Angel Fallen Again –for Maarten’s ever falling son), two grooving originals (New Feet & Rul Grint) and a two-in-one blues (Freight Trane & Chi Chi, interwoven).
Each song tells a story of it’s own, nine stories altogether told by Van der Grinten and Van Ruller.