Summary: <p><span style="font-size: medium;">Widely admired as a gifted and innovative player, jazz guitarist Jim Hall continued his career spanning more than five decades until a brief illness ended his life on December 10, 2013 at age 83. Hall had recently entered a new creative space, writing and arranging choral and orchestral compositions, all the while continuing to record and perform in a variety of settings. The 2004 NEA Jazz Master inductee teams up with McPartland and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi for "Blue Monk" and solos on "All the Things You Are."</span></p>
