category: instrumental jazz / easy listening

Album review:
"If you like Lenny, this is a must have. If you haven't caught the Lenny bug, listen to this one. It is an exceptionally honest recording, direct to analog tape, Lenny alone in a cabin deep in Canada. His father had just passed away, and this is a tribute to that man, who Lenny had played music with professionally as a youth. It was recorded with the intention of editing it into an LP, but that never happened. Believe me, we are lucky that it was released, all due to the efforts of Randy Bachman (yes, he of the Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive, who learned guitar from Lenny as a peer in Canada). This is the way to do it, unedited, gets you right into Lenny's head. Yes, he was a wonder; warm, brilliant, introverted, incredibly diverse but keeping everything wrapped in a beautiful completeness. The flamenco sections are wonderful, but it all circles back to the grounding of the standards he plays so well. He never sounded so much like Bill Evans. This is the best jazz solo work on a classical guitar I have ever heard by a long shot-beats the tar out of Joe Pass' attempt on the instrument, and he plays circles around Charlie Byrd. This is simply one of the finest solo jazz guitar recordings ever. No, make that jazz guitar recordings period, solo or not. Rest in Peace, Lenny, you were a good man, sorry you had such a rough time of it." -- Daniel Fairchild (Boulder, CO)

CD Track Listing

  1. LENNY'S WARM UP & IMPROVISATION OF ATUMN LEAVES (Mercer / Kozma) (7:05)
  2. LENNY'S MOOD (Lenny Breau) (2:16)
  3. EAST SIDE (Lenny Breau) (1:36)
  4. YOU CAME TO ME OUT OF NOWHERE (Green / Heyman) (4:31)
  5. WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE (Cole Porter) (7:50)
  6. DAYS OF WINE & ROSES (Mancini / Mercer) (10:35)
  7. LENNY'S MODE (Lenny Breau) (6:58)
  8. HERE'S THAT RAINY DAY (Burke / Van Heusen) (6:32)
  9. CELTIC DREAM STREAM (Lenny Breau) (5:21)
10. INTERVIEW w/GLEN McDONALD (Lenny's friend) (6:21)

Total timing: 59:08

Label/No: Guitarchives 0002 (Canadian issue)

Release date: 1996