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artist: ray brown trio
title: live from new york to tokyo
date: 2003
label: Concord Jazz
genre: Jazz
rls. date: Feb/2004
tracks: 19
bitrate: 192kbps
size: 127,7 MB
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This two-fer reissue combines two live albums released by the
Ray Brown Trio in the 1980s, The Red Hot Ray Brown Trio,
featuring pianist Gene Harris and drummer Mickey Roker along
with bassist Brown, recorded at the Blue Note nightclub in New
York in November and December 1985, and Bam Bam Bam, with the
trio consisting of Brown, Harris, and drummer Jeff Hamilton,
cut in December 1988 at the 2,000-seat Kan-i Hoken Hall in
Toyko. Harris, whom Brown had lured from obscurity and
retirement in Idaho, was something of the bassist's protΘgΘ
during this period, so it is not surprising that Brown actually
takes a back seat on much of the music here, allowing Harris to
be showcased. To listen to these albums, you would think
Harris, not Brown, was the leader. The bassist does reserve at
least one important solo for himself in each set, giving an
expressive arco introduction to the surprising selection "Love
Me Tender" (the Elvis Presley song) on the first disc and
returning to the bow on an attractive interpretation of Rodgers
& Hammerstein's "If I Loved You" from Carousel on the second.
Hamilton also gets some spotlight time on the second disc,
notably with a showy solo during "Rio" and a hand-drumming part
in "A Night in Tunisia." But it's Harris who carries the
programs in each concert, and he proves an imaginative soloist,
particularly during a version of Gershwin's "Summertime" in
Tokyo that has the enthusiastic audience clapping along. The
pianist could ask for nothing more than the platform Brown has
provided for him on these albums.
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cd1
01-have you met miss jones? [04:20]
02-meditation [06:05]
03-street of dreams [05:19]
04-lady be good [06:23]
05-that's all [06:10]
06-love me tender [06:54]
07-how could you do a thing like this to me? [05:06]
08-captain bill [04:07]
cd2
01-introductory announcement [00:36]
02-f.s.r. (for sonny rollins) [05:27]
03-put your little foot right out [06:00]
04-rio [07:02]
05-if i loved you [03:49]
06-introductory announcement [00:22]
07-summertime [07:15]
08-days of wine and roses [06:53]
09-introductory announcement [00:19]
10-a night in tunisia [06:24]
11-bam bam bam [04:20]
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92:51 min
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