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A Touch of Class (album)

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Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
West Wind Records

Recorded
  
1978 October 26, Warsaw, Poland

A Touch of Class is a big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in Warsaw, Poland in November 1978. The first three tracks, together with a 14-minute version of "Fingers," were previously released in Poland on a Poljazz LP and all tracks were also included on the 2007 compilation album, Thad Jones Mel Lewis Orchestra In Europe and on the 2009 compilation CD, The Complete Poland Concerts 1976 & 1978.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Quietude" (Jones) – 7:26
  2. "Samba Con Get Chu" (Brookmeyer) – 13:35
  3. "Cecilia Is Love" (Foster) – 7:06
  4. "I Love You" (Porter) – 5:57
  5. "And I Love You So" (McLean) – 7:33
  6. "That's Freedom" (Jones) – 9:14

Personnel

  • Thad Jones – flugelhorn
  • Mel Lewis – drums
  • Jim McNeely – piano
  • Jasper Lundgaard – bass
  • Dick Oatts – alto saxophone
  • Steve Coleman – alto saxophone
  • Rich Perry – tenor saxophone
  • Robert Rockwell – tenor saxophone
  • Charles Davis – baritone saxophone
  • Ron Tooley – trumpet
  • Simo Salminen – trumpet
  • Irvin Stokes – trumpet
  • Larry Moss – trumpet
  • Doug Purviance – trombone
  • Lolly Bienenfeld – trombone
  • Lu Robertson – trombone
  • John Mosca – trombone

    • References

    A Touch of Class (album) Wikipedia
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