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The Complete Poland Concerts 1976 and 1978

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Released
  
2009

Release date
  
2009

Genre
  
Jazz

Length
  
136:31

Label
  
Gambit Records

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Recorded
  
1976 August 6 (Sopot) and 1978 October 26 (Warsaw), Poland and 1978 October 2 (Berlin), Germany

Artist
  
The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra

Similar
  
The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra albums, Jazz albums

The Complete Poland Concerts, 1976 and 1978 is a compilation of the complete live recordings made by the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in Poland in August 1976 and October 1978. Two additional tracks from a 1978 Berlin concert round out the album.

Contents

Release history

Most of the 1978 Poland concert tracks and the two Berlin tracks were previously released outside Poland on WestWind Jazz releases, A Touch of Class and Body and Soul respectively. The 1976 Sopot (Jazz Jantar) tracks had previously been available only on a domestic Polish release from PolJazz.

Track listing

Disc 1:

  1. "Fingers" (T. Jones) – 14:05
  2. "Thank You" (J. Dodgion) – 6:55
  3. "Take a Ladder" (R. Scott) – 8:50
  4. "Greetings and Salutations" (T. Jones) – 13:50
  5. "A Child Is Born" – 9:45
  6. "Intimacy of the Blues" (Strayhorn) – 16:25

Disc 2:

  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
  7. "Fingers" – 14:14

Tracks 1.1 - 1.4 previously released on Poljazz LP ZSX 637
Tracks 1.5 and 1.6 previously released on Body and Soul, West Wind Jazz WW2048
Tracks 2.1 - 2.3 and 2.7 previously released on Poljazz LP ZSX 697
Tracks 2.1 - 2.6 previously released on A Touch of Class, West Wind Jazz WW2402

Personnel

  • Thad Jones – flugelhorn
  • Mel Lewis – drums
  • John Mosca – trombone

    • 1976 Sopot: Disc 1 tracks 1-4

  • Harold Danko – piano
  • Dwight R. Bowman – bass
  • Edward I. Xiques – alto saxophone
  • Jerry D. Dodgion – alto saxophone
  • Arnold L. Schneider – tenor saxophone
  • Gregory D. Herbert – tenor saxophone
  • Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone
  • Al Porcino – trumpet
  • Earl Gardner – trumpet
  • Frank Gordon – trumpet
  • Lynn Nicholson – trumpet
  • William M. Campbell – trombone
  • Clifford A. Adams – trombone
  • Earl P. McIntyre – trombone

    • 1978 Berlin: Disc 1 tracks 5-6; 1978 Warsaw: Disc 2

  • Jim McNeely – piano
  • Jasper Lundgaard – bass
  • Dick Oatts – alto saxophone
  • Steve Coleman – alto saxophone
  • Rick Perry – tenor saxophone
  • Robert Rockwell – tenor saxophone
  • Charles Davis – baritone saxophone
  • Ron Tooley – trumpet
  • Simo Salminin – trumpet
  • Irvin Stokes – trumpet
  • Larry Moss – trumpet
  • Doug Purviance – trombone
  • Lolly Bienenfeld – trombone
  • Lu Robertson – trombone

    • Songs

    1Fingers (Live at Jazz Jantar - Sopot 1976)13:28
    2Thank You (Live at Jazz Jantar - Sopot 1976)6:47
    3Take a Ladder (Live at Jazz Jantar - Sopot 1976)8:46

    References

    The Complete Poland Concerts 1976 & 1978 Wikipedia
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