Smokin' debut
Buddy Gordon | colorado springs, CO United States | 12/03/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This was Toshiko's first album with the LA based big band. They had already been rehearsing several years, the personnel was set and the repertoire fully developed.
The personnel includes:
Bobby Shew, Mike Price, John Madrid, Don Rader - tp
Charlie Loper, Britt Woodman, Phil Teel, tb
Dick Spencer, Gary Foster, Lew Tabackin, Bill Perkins - sax, ww
Peter Donald - drums
Tunes:
Elegy - burning bebop flavored tune with a tour de force by Lew.
Memory - Oriental flavored ballad featuring Bobby Shew on flugelhorn.
Kogun - Oriental fantasy.
American Ballad - Ellington type ballad featuring his former trombonist Woodman.
Buy it!"