Echoes of a Note (A Tribute to Louis "Pops" Armstrong) [Original recording remastered]

Eri Ohno/Great Jazz Trio, Tiger Okoshi | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Jvc / Xrcd
• ASIN: B000040OHI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #353,816 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hello, Dolly!

2. Basin Street Blues

3. (When We Are Dancing) I Get Ideas

4. St. James Infirmary

5. Rockin' Chair

6. St. Louis Blues

7. When It's Sleepy Time Down South

8. On the Sunny Side of the Street

9. When the Saints Go Marching In

10. What a Wonderful World

Editorial Reviews

On Echoes of a Note, trumpet player tiger Okoshi pays homage to his musical Hero, Louis Armstrong, interpreting 10 traditional tunes with a thoroughly contemporary spin. Gil Goldstein, Bela Fleck and Mike Stern join Tiger on accordion, banjo and electric guitar respectively, creating a truly unique instrumental setting for Satchmo's music. The predecessor to Tiger's Stereophile Recording of the Month, Two Sides to Every Story. This disc was also produced by Akira Taguchi (co-creator of the XRCD process).

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spellbinding, August 2, 2009

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Karl W. Nehring (Ostrander, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Echoes of a Note (A Tribute to Louis "Pops" Armstrong) (Audio CD)

Some readers might be familiar with New Orleans trumpeter Leroy Jones, whose Props for Pops is a delightful tribute to legendary New Orleans trumpeter Louis Armstrong. You may have already guessed that Okoshi is not a Crescent City native, but Tiger considers himself one of "Pop's boys," and Echoes of a Note is a tribute to Satchmo, featuring many of the same Armstrong-related tunes featured on Jones's CD, but done in a much different style.
On this CD, Okoshi is supported by Stern on guitar, Goldstein on piano and accordion, plus Bela Fleck on banjo, Jay Anderson on bass, and Peter Erskine on drums. This all-star ensemble pays tribute to Armstrong by recasting his music in bop form. Satchmo's notes are there, but as echoes, not as re-creations.
The overall effect is spellbinding, and the music is aided by the sonic quality, which is again razor-sharp without ever sounding the least bit bright or hard. The net result is a CD that can be played over and over and over again, each time yielding new delights--just like Leroy Jones's CDs, but yet so different, too. What a wonderful world, indeed!