Thank you everyone. There was a time when great jazz musicians were invited to play 6 minutes of great music - at a time - on one of the most popular shows in America. This country was smarter for it.

To my father and Jim miss you both so much

Thank you, Jim Hall, for all the great music. You will be missed.

A masterful performance. Genius. May he rest in peace.

RIP Jim Hall... your music will live on

Kudos to Carson for having the cojones to put this on the air, two songs no less. RIP Mr. Hall. These are the greats folks, there are not many left, appreciate them while they're with us.

Attention Django, Charlie and Wes- Make room for a fellow Jazz Immortal who is'arriving - the Master of subtlty, melodiscism, foward-thinking modernism, introspective taste, and sensitive use of space - Mr. Jim Hall.Thank you Mr. Hall for your wonderful music- your life's work is now at a completion- Eric S.

RIP Mr Hall...left such great music.

The great ballad jazz harmony's maker of all times: Jim hall; great themes to and always an interesting form...Great player, great musician!

Absolutely great tone and such fantastic touch. What a master! So unfortunate great players like this aren't featured anymore, or at least rarely are, on late night shows.

now that's pure beauty on Skylark and what re-harm. Jim will always be here for me and his legion of fans.

2:14 - yes, that's Jim Hall using a Digitech Whammy Pedal, to great effect. :) RIP

Wow! I did not know Jim Hall was on national TV as recently as 1992. This is great footage. Jim Hall's solo intro to Skylark is outstanding as is the rest of the performance.

1992... This was Carson's last year on the Tonight Show, and he never stopped upgrading (and thus, ennobling) the taste of his viewing audience. Hall, perhaps the most "acoustic-sounding" of all jazz guitarists, gives a nod to "fusion" in the first piece: Neither Corea, nor Zappa, ever wrote a more angular and challenging melody. The second piece, "Skylark," is one of Hoagy Carmichael's many masterpieces, and is presented here, reharmonizations and all, gloriously. (Had you heard these tunes in a club, they would have gone on for 10, 20 minutes, or more, as their rhythmic and harmonic landscapes were explored... however, this is network television, with time-constraints, and commercial breaks, and Hall knows this, so he and the Quartet circumscribe themselves. Admirable... Brilliant.) **paul harris Johnny was a talented drummer and a friend of Buddy Rich. He probably felt just as you say that he was bringing 'the good stuff' to his audience. Let's also recall the wonderful Tonight Show Band with Skitch, Doc, and Tommy at the helm over the years. They had many of the best jazz players in NYC on board. They were too good for this world. I was hoping that big bands would become a talk-show tradition but the shift to rock-style bands was over-determined. paul harris An awful lot of my early musical (and other kinds of) education came from watching the Carson Tonight Show, with Doc's band, and the incredible array of musical guests.

What chance genius such as this would get a look-in on this show today...? My how things have changed. Two songs, back to back, pure (lifetime brilliance) music, no T*ts-and-a*s, no F-bombs, no 'back-story'.

Remember watching this performance on TV 21 years ago! Awesome guitarist. RIP Jim Hall.

Fuck it, that solo-guitar-intro was fuckingly beautiful. Good for the good old man, Dr. Hall and his magic medicine. Chapeau.

Thanks for your great music!! We will miss you...

Incredible footage!!! Thanks for posting this.

looking like a college professor at an awards dinner and playing funkier than hell!

very nice music May he rest in peace thanks for sharing your talent with us

i'm floored. What a master!

Wow, Jim at his best. Thanks for posting.

What a brilliant artist. And Larry Goldings at age 24 on piano there. Thanks for posting this

Glad I got to see him play once before he passed away.

Hadn't seen this. Thanks for posting. Hall and quartet are great.

Also great that they got like six minutes to play jazz on prime time tv

I hope music such as this does not die.

Absolute spiritual beauty

i hear a lot of Ornette in there...jim was right around at the time. and i could imagine that he must have been very attracted to this new creative output of the «ornette-school». Rest in peace, Jim

meeeennnn!! speachless

Gorgeous. Simply gorgeous.

That's American....push and SET new limits/dimensions/possibilities . I love it!

Very cool. RIP monsieur Hall.

Beautiful Koontz guitar..! Thanks Jim...! RIP

Absolute genius

he was master of tone

fantastico!

such a brilliant version of Skylark

RIP Jim.

My first jazz guitarist.

You can clearly hear who Metheny was listening to.

👏🏾👏🏾

Skylark begins at 3:20

great drummer and that's it

sweet !!!

Fabulous! Good to see Terry Clarke pulled south from the frosty north. Trust Jim to grab one of Ed Bickert's top guys.

Jazz on TV? What?

Masterful. And he did it without all the faces, vocal noises or jumping up and down!

w/ Larry Goldings pi, Steve LaSpina b, Terry Clarke dr

God fingers !!!!

RIP

Jon: as an old engineering professor used to say, "Roughly....zero." I occasionally listen to pop music on my satellite radio so that I don't become too out-of-touch. Instrumental solos within songs are now unusual, let alone entire instrumental pieces. The lead voice is the only instrument free to express itself. The rest can't - either because they're not allowed or don't have the ability.

Nice rudimental style drum patterns

Is that Terry Clarke on drums?

What kind of bass is that? Probably a one-off custom, but still interesting to know.

Chord solo on augmented scale i guess, and on diminished scale after? That's what i hear, maybe i'm wrong ;)

Well, he's playing in 4ths, and he's using a pedal to give an edge to the sound -- my guess is that it's a Ring Modulator, but I'm not sure (you can see him stomp on the pedal just before, and after, that section)

From this to Jimmy Fallon….‘nough said

🤍

Is that Keith Jarrett on piano?

Bill Evans on piano. Now there's a man who died way too young.

too lovely

This just doesn't happen anymore. At least not on talk shows, too bad.

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