Maya with Love
Studio album by
Harold Mabern
ReleasedJune 27, 2000
RecordedJune 21, 1999
StudioAvatar, New York City
GenreJazz
Length65:22
LabelDIW
(DIW-622)
ProducerJames Williams, Kazunori Sugiyama
Harold Mabern chronology
Mabern's Grooveyard
(1998)		 Maya with Love
(2000)		 Kiss of Fire
(2001)

Maya with Love is an album by pianist Harold Mabern which was released by DIW Records in 2000.

Recording and music

The personnel are Harold Mabern (piano), Christian McBride (bass), and Tony Reedus (drums).[1] This trio had recorded the album Mabern’s Grooveyard in 1996.[2] "To Maya Glenne with Love" is for Mabern's granddaughter.[1]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Maya with Love was released by DIW Records in 2000.[2][3] The AllMusic reviewer concluded that Mabern's album was "a supreme performance that is full of joy and makes this artist's relative obscurity seem criminal."[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Harold Mabern except where noted

  1. "To Maya Glenne with Love" – 6:52
  2. "You Are Too Beautiful" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 9:03
  3. "Hymn of the Orient" (Gigi Gryce) – 5:43
  4. "A Song for Connie" – 5:04
  5. "Lament" (J. J. Johnson) – 7:24
  6. "Boogie for All McShann" – 2:57
  7. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash) – 5:15
  8. "Little Girl Blue" (Rogers, Hart) – 5:25
  9. "Blue Bossa" (Kenny Dorham) – 5:02
  10. "Maybe September" (Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Percy Faith) – 8:28
  11. "Begin the Beguine" (Cole Porter) – 4:09

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Proefrock, Stacia "Harold Mabern: "Maya with Love". AllMusic. Retrieved October 29, 2017.
  2. 1 2 Corroto, Mark (June 1, 2000) "Harold Mabern: Maya with Love". All About Jazz.
  3. ↑ Jazzlists: DIW Records: CDs 601 to 634, accessed March 12, 2018
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