Jon & Billy

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Jon & Billy
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Studio album by
Released1974
RecordedMarch 13, 1974
StudioTeichiku Studio in Tokyo, Japan
Genre Jazz
Length38:24
Label Trio PAP 9003
Producer Kazuo Harada and Kuniya Inaoka
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Jon & Billy is an album by trumpeter Jon Faddis and saxophonist Billy Harper recorded in Japan in 1974 and originally released on the Japanese Trio label. [1]

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Reception

Professional ratings
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On AllMusic Ron Wynn states " the date's value is in hearing where Harper and Faddis, as well as jazz itself, were in the mid-'70s and then comparing how far they and the music have and have not come since then". [2]

Track listing

  1. "Jon and Billy" (Roland Hanna) – 6:02
  2. "Water Bridge-Mizu Hashi San" (Ron Bridgewater) – 8:06
  3. "Ballad for Jon Faddis" (Hanna) – 4:03
  4. "Two 'D's from Shinjyuku, Dig and Dug" (Billy Harper) – 7:07
  5. "17-Bar Blues" (Hanna) – 5:29
  6. "This All-Koredake" (Hanna) – 7:56

Personnel

References

  1. Billy Harper discography Archived 2015-02-09 at the Wayback Machine accessed May 5, 2015
  2. 1 2 Wynn, Ron. Jon & Billy – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved May 5, 2015.