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My Way (Lester Bowie album)

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Released
  
1990

Length
  
47:04

Label
  
DIW Records

Recorded
  
January 22–30, 1990

Release date
  
1990

Genre
  
Jazz

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My Way (1990)
  
Live at the 6th Tokyo Music Joy (1991)

Artists
  
Lester Bowie, Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy

Similar
  
Serious Fun, Live at the 6th Tokyo Music Joy, I Only Have Eyes for You, Duet, The Great Pretender

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My Way is the second album Lester Bowie recorded for the Japanese DIW label and the fifth album by his "Brass Fantasy" group. It was released in 1990 and features performances by Bowie, Gregory Williams, Frank Lacy, Steve Turre, E. J. Allen, Gerald Brezel, Earl Garner, Stanton Davis, Bob Stewart, Ken Crutchfield, Vinnie Johnson and Famoudou Don Moye.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2½ stars stating "this set certainly has its interesting moments, although it is a bit erratic".

Track listing

  1. "Quasi" (Bruce Purse) - 8:30
  2. "Who Says" (Turre) - 7:30
  3. "After Thought" (Purse) - 9:53
  4. "My Way" (Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault) - 10:17
  5. "I Got You (I Feel Good)" (James Brown) - 6:09
  6. "Honky Tonk" (Billy Butler, Bill Doggett, Clifford Scott, Berisford "Shep" Shepherd) - 4:45
  • Recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY on 22, 24, 25, 26 & 30 January 1990
  • Personnel

  • Lester Bowie: trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Gregory Williams: French horn
  • Frank Lacy: trombone, vocals
  • Steve Turre: trombone, conch shell
  • E. J. Allen: trumpet
  • Gerald Brezel: trumpet
  • Earl Garner: trumpet
  • Stanton Davis: trumpet, piccolo trumpet
  • Bob Stewart: tuba
  • Famoudou Don Moye: percussion
  • Ken Crutchfield: drums
  • Vinnie Johnson: drums
  • Songs

    1Quasi8:30
    2Who Says7:30
    3After Thought9:53

    References

    My Way (Lester Bowie album) Wikipedia