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Jon and Billy

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Released
  
1974

Label
  
Trio PAP 9003

Artists
  
Billy Harper, Jon Faddis

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
38:24

Jon & Billy (1974)
  
Black Saint (1975)

Release date
  
1974

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Recorded
  
March 13, 1974 at Teichiku Studio in Tokyo, Japan

Producer
  
Kazuo Harada and Kuniya Inaoka

Similar
  
Billy Harper albums, Jazz albums

Jon & Billy is an album by trumpeter Jon Faddis and saxophonist Billy Harper recorded in Japan in 1974 and originally released on the Japanese Trio label.

Contents

Reception

On AllMusic Ron Wynn states " the date's value is in hearing where Harper and Faddis, as well as jazz itself, were in the mid-'70s and then comparing how far they and the music have and have not come since then".

Track listing

  1. "Jon and Billy" (Roland Hanna) - 6:02
  2. "Water Bridge-Mizu Hashi San" (Ron Bridgewater) - 8:06
  3. "Ballad for Jon Faddis" (Hanna) - 4:03
  4. "Two 'D's from Shinjyuku, Dig and Dug" (Billy Harper) - 7:07
  5. "17-Bar Blues" (Hanna) - 5:29
  6. "This All" (Hanna) - 7:56

Personnel

  • Jon Faddis - trumpet
  • Billy Harper - tenor saxophone
  • Roland Hanna - piano, electric piano
  • George Mraz - bass
  • Motohiko Hino - drums
  • Cecil Bridgewater - kalimba (track 4)
  • References

    Jon & Billy Wikipedia