Live in 75: Japanese Tour 2 [Live]

Supersax | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (December 7, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Hindsight Records
• ASIN: B00003XAHW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Track Listings

1. Blue and Boogie

2. Starr Eyes

3. Lover Man

4. Bebop

5. Repetition

6. A Night in Tunisia

7. Koko

Customer Reviews

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Supersax Live In 75 Tour Volume 2, June 16, 2000

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Les Benedict (Burbank, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live in 75: Japanese Tour 2 (Audio CD)

Supersax must have been performing every night on this tour. They are so tight, so together. And Frank Rosolino is at his all-time best, the most spectacular trombonist ever. The rhythm section (Lou Levy, Buddy Clark, Jake Hanna) is incredible, and leader Med Flory is at his best inimitable, irreverent, irrepressible self.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incrediable Bop!, December 5, 2008

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deparko swift (Socal) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Japanese Tour (MP3 Download)

It's so nice to run across this. I use to see these guys all the time in the 70's in L.A. Sunday afternoon at the Pilgrimage. Being a lover of Jazz and and Parker, these guys tell it like it is. This is real rock n roll

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be bop at its best PT 2, April 28, 2003

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Jazzcat "stef" (Genoa, Italy Italy) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Live in 75: Japanese Tour 2 (Audio CD)

A dream come true for the true bebop enthusiast. Supersax was a hell of a band, and the idea of playing some of the best Bird's solos reharmonized for 5 saxophones is damn good. To say this correctly you can hear in the beginning of each track the full Bird solo, which usually was short (due to the recording limits of the era) and than you can hear 8 or 9 minutes of be bop blowing from the men in Supersax (Nimitz, Flory, Marsh, Hanna etc) and from Frank Rosolino the best trombone playing ever. Each tune is streached out at its limits for great listening fun. This is bop how it should be played, with no time restrictions, energy, abandon, and passion for the music. This one is the second part of a double live recording (you can find this same review in Supersax Japan part 1). The list is pure be bop with few standards which entered in the history of jazz like Bird's stuff (Just friends from the Bird with strings album for example). Really, Bird solos was so unforgettable that someone soon or later had to think to this idea of playing them as classic compositions, reharmonized for a small ensemble. Not to mention the solos from the men in Supersax and from Rosolino. They're really close to the ones from the masters tributed here (not only Bird, Diz and Monk too). Hope Capitol records soon will reissue the first three albums from Supersax that were unbelievable like this one.