Satoru Oda & Hank Jones Great Jazz Quintet – Just Friends (2000) [Japan 2017]
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American jazz musicians Hank Jones, Slide Hampton, Andy McKee and Lewis Nash collaborate with Japanese tenor sax player Satoru Oda on this set recorded during a tour of Japan.
Unless one can read the Japanese liner notes to this Venus release, it is difficult to share much information about tenor saxophonist Satoru Oda, though he’s obviously a veteran tenor saxophonist who must be familiar to Japanese jazz consumers. But he could have hardly recruited a better group of visitors to record with him in his native land than Hank Jones and Slide Hampton, with bassist Andy McKee and drummer Lewis Nash to boot. Oda isn’t exactly a frighteningly original soloist though he’s at least able to swing; but Hampton’s trombone solos are far more interesting. Jones, as always, can provide flawless backgrounds for any musician, while his solos are of high quality as well. The program draws from a mix of standards with bop and cool favorites. Hampton’s humorous licks in the snappy “Scrapple from the Apple” and the pianist’s solo in his original loping ballad “AK300” are especially noteworthy.
Tracklist:
01. Bernie’s Tune
02. There Will Never Be Another You
03. My Little Suede Shoes
04. Body And Soul
05. Scrapple From The Apple
06. Easy Living
07. Elevation
08. AK300
09. Just Friends
Personnel:
Satoru Oda – tenor sax (misprinted as Satolu Oda)
Slide Hampton – trombone
Hank Jones – piano
Andy McKee – bass
Lewis Nash – drums
Note:
Produced, Mixed & Mastered by Tetsuo Hara. Engineered by Hiroshi Sato.
Recorded on December 17-18, 1994 at Music Inn in Tokyo, Japan.
Venus Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix. VENUS Japan # VHGD-217.
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