Name: Live From New York To Tokyo
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Live From New York To Tokyo

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Album: Live From New York To Tokyo
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Have You Met Miss Jones	More Info...	4:20
2)	Meditation	More Info...	6:06
3)	Street Of Dreams	More Info...	5:19
4)	Oh, Lady Be Good	More Info...	6:23
5)	That's All	More Info...	6:10
6)	Love Me Tender	More Info...	6:54
7)	How Could You Do A Thing Like This To Me?	More Info...	5:06
8)	Captain Bill	More Info...	4:08
	Disc 2
1)	Introductory Announcement	More Info...	0:37
2)	F.S.R. (For Sonny Rollins)	More Info...	5:27
3)	Put Your Little Foot Right Out	More Info...	6:01
4)	Rio	More Info...	7:02
5)	If I Loved You	More Info...	3:50
6)	Introductory Announcement	More Info...	0:22
7)	Summertime	More Info...	7:15
8)	Days Of Wine And Roses	More Info...	6:53
9)	Introductory Announcement	More Info...	0:20
10)	A Night In Tunisia	More Info...	6:25
11)	Bam Bam Bam	More Info...	4:21

Album: Live From New York To Tokyo
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Have You Met Miss Jones	More Info...	4:20
2)	Meditation	More Info...	6:06
3)	Street Of Dreams	More Info...	5:19
4)	Oh, Lady Be Good	More Info...	6:23
5)	That's All	More Info...	6:10
6)	Love Me Tender	More Info...	6:54
7)	How Could You Do A Thing Like This To Me?	More Info...	5:06
8)	Captain Bill	More Info...	4:08
	Disc 2
1)	Introductory Announcement	More Info...	0:37
2)	F.S.R. (For Sonny Rollins)	More Info...	5:27
3)	Put Your Little Foot Right Out	More Info...	6:01
4)	Rio	More Info...	7:02
5)	If I Loved You	More Info...	3:50
6)	Introductory Announcement	More Info...	0:22
7)	Summertime	More Info...	7:15
8)	Days Of Wine And Roses	More Info...	6:53
9)	Introductory Announcement	More Info...	0:20
10)	A Night In Tunisia	More Info...	6:25
11)	Bam Bam Bam	More Info...	4:21

Performer Notes

LIVE FROM NEW YORK TO TOKYO contains THE RED HOT RAY BROWN TRIO (1987)/BAM BAM BAM (1989).
Ray Brown Trio: Ray Brown (bass); Gene Harris (piano); Mickey Roker, Jeff Hamilton (drums).
Producers: Ray Brown, Bennett Rubin, Carl E. Jefferson.
Recorded live at The Blue Note, New York, New York and at the 1988 Fujitsu-Concord Jazz Festival, Kan-i Hoken Hall, Tokyo, Japan in November-December 1985 and December 1988.
This two-fer reissue combines two live albums released by the Ray Brown Trio in the 1980s, The Red Hot Ray Brown Trio, featuring pianist Gene Harris and drummer Mickey Roker along with bassist Brown, recorded at the Blue Note nightclub in New York in November and December 1985, and Bam Bam Bam, with the trio consisting of Brown, Harris, and drummer Jeff Hamilton, cut in December 1988 at the 2,000-seat Kan-i Hoken Hall in Toyko. Harris, whom Brown had lured from obscurity and retirement in Idaho, was something of the bassist's prot?g? during this period, so it is not surprising that Brown actually takes a back seat on much of the music here, allowing Harris to be showcased. To listen to these albums, you would think Harris, not Brown, was the leader. The bassist does reserve at least one important solo for himself in each set, giving an expressive arco introduction to the surprising selection "Love Me Tender" (the Elvis Presley song) on the first disc and returning to the bow on an attractive interpretation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "If I Loved You" from Carousel on the second. Hamilton also gets some spotlight time on the second disc, notably with a showy solo during "Rio" and a hand-drumming part in "A Night in Tunisia." But it's Harris who carries the programs in each concert, and he proves an imaginative soloist, particularly during a version of Gershwin's "Summertime" in Tokyo that has the enthusiastic audience clapping along. The pianist could ask for nothing more than the platform Brown has provided for him on these albums. ~ William Ruhlmann