Ray Bryant – Alone At Montreux (NM/VG+) – LP, JP 1973, No OBI

Alone At Montreux is an LP by Ray Bryant from 1973 released on the Atlantic label.

About this album

Alone At Montreux finds Ray Bryant in commanding solo form, turning a live recital into a lesson in swing, blues and melodic invention. Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival and released in 1972, the album highlights Bryant’s ability to make a single piano sound full and conversational, shifting easily from hard-driving blues figures to supple ballads and folk-derived themes. His reading of songs such as Gotta Travel On, Willow Weep For Me and Cubano Chant shows why he was admired as both an elegant stylist and a deeply rhythmic improviser. It stands as one of his most distinctive live statements.

Genre: Jazz