20 Standards (Quartet) 2003

Reception

The AllMusic review by François Couture states, "one is struck by the multifaceted balance of the album as a whole... Braxton pays a loving tribute to each tune, respecting the melody, pushing it beyond the composer's wildest dreams, taking it apart and reassembling it in the most natural-sounding way. ...These are masterfully creative revisitations of chunks of jazz history, big and small". All About Jazz reviewer Christinan Carey noted "Much of the repertoire featured here was integral to the cool jazz of the fifties, but the quartet tears into it like it was written yesterday. ...If you want to hear your favorite old standards sounding brand new again, this set fits the bill".

Track listing

Disc One:

1. "All the Things You Are" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 20:08
2. "Lines for Lyons" (Gerry Mulligan) - 13:53
3. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg) - 12:25
4. "Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) - 16:07
5. "Blues for Alice" (Charlie Parker) - 13:32

Disc Two:

1. "Alone Together" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) - 18:32
2. "Waltz for Debbie" (Bill Evans) - 12:28
3. "For Heaven's Sake" (Elise Bretton, Sherman Edwards, Donald Meyer) - 13:40
4. "Freedom Jazz Dance" (Eddie Harris) - 14:48
5. "The Song Is You" (Kern, Hammerstein) - 19:12

Disc Three:

1. "The Duke" (Dave Brubeck) - 12:24
2. "I Love You" (Cole Porter) - 13:48
3. "Lonnie's Lament" (John Coltrane) - 8:05
4. "Blue Rondo à la Turk" (Brubeck) - 14:42
5. "Invitation" (Kaper) - 17:09

Disc Four:

1. "Tune Up" (Miles Davis) - 19:15
2. "Remember" (Irving Berlin) - 18:03
3. "Moonlight in Vermont" (John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf) - 15:05
4. "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) - 10:24
5. "Serenity" (Joe Henderson) - 13:25

Personnel