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Live Under the Sky

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Recorded
  
July 26–27, 1979

Label
  
Sony Music Labels Inc.

Release date
  
1979

Genre
  
Jazz

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Released
  
1979 (in Japan), 2004 (rest of World)

Live Under the Sky (1979)
  
Live Under the Sky, No. 2 (2002)

Artists
  
V.S.O.P., The V.S.O.P. Quintet

Jazz albums
  
VSOP, The Piano, Village Life, Perfect Machine, Magic Windows

Live Under the Sky by the V.S.O.P. Quintet was performed live in Japan over two days. The first day, which took place during a furious rainstorm, was broadcast live on national television. The original release featured the first day, while the 2004 re-master/re-release (fully for the first time in the United States) also featured the second concert. This, the fourth VSOP release, once again featured Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Ron Carter and Freddie Hubbard.

Contents

About this Album

The songs in this concert feature a song from Hancock's usual set of "Eye of The Hurricane" and also an original for the concert "Domo", Carter's contributions of "Tear Drop" and "Fragile", Williams' "Para Oriente" and "Pee Wee" and Hubbard's "One of Another Kind". Shorter and Hancock came out during the second concert, for an encore performance of classic jazz standards "Stella by Starlight" and "On Green Dolphin Street". The band, already exhausted after the second concert did not want to come out for an encore, so Hancock and Shorter came out by themselves and played.

Track listing

Disc 1 - July 26, 1979
  1. "Opening" - 0:46
  2. "Eye of the Hurricane" (Hancock) - 7:48
  3. "Tear Drop" (Carter) - 10:34
  4. "Domo" (Hancock) - 12:35
  5. "Para Oriente" (Williams) - 7:28
  6. "Pee Wee" (Williams) - 8:12
  7. "One of Another Kind" (Hubbard) - 20:48
  8. "Fragile" (Carter) - 9:40
Disc 2 - July 27, 1979
  1. "Opening" - 0:23
  2. "Eye of the Hurricane" (Hancock) - 11:25
  3. "Tear Drop" (Carter) - 9:13
  4. "Domo" (Hancock) - 11:41
  5. "Para Oriente" (Williams) - 6:51
  6. "Pee Wee" (Williams) - 6:27
  7. "One of Another Kind" (Hubbard) - 14:45
  8. "Fragile" (Carter) - 8:32
  9. "Stella by Starlight" (Washington, Young) - 4:45
  10. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Kaper, Washington) - 2:17

Personnel

  • Ron Carter - Bass
  • Tony Williams - Drums
  • Freddie Hubbard - Trumpet
  • Wayne Shorter - Tenor Saxophone/Soprano Saxophone
  • Herbie Hancock - Piano

    • Songs

    1One of Another Kind20:48
    2Teardrop10:13
    3Pee Wee7:47

    References

    Live Under the Sky Wikipedia
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