The clarinet and tenor player caught the tail end of the Swing era with the Woody Herman band, for which he composed the well-known "Four Brothers", and played cool jazz in his own distinctive way in the 1950's. The undertone of abstraction that came into his playing in the late 1950's was fully developed on the recordings heard tonight.
| Propulsion Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall (1962) |
| Threewe Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall |
| Ornothoids Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall |
| Dichotomy Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall |
| Man Alone Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall |
| Spasmodic Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall |
| Yggdrasill Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall |
| Divided Man Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall |
| Primordial Call Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall |
| The Five Ways Jimmy Giuffre/Paul Bley/Steve Swallow - Free Fall |
| Cry, Want Jimmy Giuffre/Don Friedman/Barre Phillips/Joe Chambers - New York Concerts (1965) |
| Drive Jimmy Giuffre/Richard Davis/Joe Chambers - New York Concerts |
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