Is It Really True

Is It Really True is an album by American pianist Joanne Brackeen recorded in 1991 and released on the German Konnex label.[1]

Is It Really True
Studio album by
Released1991
RecordedJuly 8, 1991
GenreJazz
Length60:45
LabelKonnex
KCD 5029
ProducerManfred Schiek
Joanne Brackeen chronology
Breath of Brazil
(1991)
Is It Really True
(1991)
Where Legends Dwell
(1991)

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek stated "This 1991 session by pianist Joanne Brackeen, and her wonderful rhythm section of Walter Schmocker on bass and drummer Billy Hart, is one of the classical examples of her stridently open pianism that engages lyric and melody in the same way Bill Evans did, and the force and sense play of Herbie Nichols ... Brackeen is a hell of a composer. Her weighty and knotty harmonics are chameleon-like in their interchangeability from mode to interval to improvisation ... There isn't a weak second on this disc, and, compared to her recordings of the late '70s and early '80s, it's a radical though logical departure that offers its own reward for listening".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Joanne Brackeen except where noted.

  1. "Is It Really True" – 7:38
  2. "Haiti-B" – 11:53
  3. "Dr. Chu Chow" – 9:16
  4. "Just in Time" (Irving Berlin) – 7:30
  5. "Estilo Magnifico" – 9:40
  6. "In a Sentimental Mood" (Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills) – 9:20
  7. "C-Sri" – 5:28

Personnel

References

  1. Discogs: album entry accessed February 17, 2017
  2. Jurek, Thom. Joanne Brackeen – Is It Really True: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
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