Live on Tour in the Far East | ||||
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Live album by Billy Harper Quintet | ||||
Released | 1992 | |||
Recorded | April 27, 1991 in Pusan, Korea | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 68:42 | |||
Label | SteepleChase SCCD 31260 | |||
Producer | Nils Winther | |||
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Live on Tour in the Far East is a live album led by saxophonist Billy Harper recorded in 1991 in Korea and released on the SteepleChase label. [1] [2] The album was followed by two additional volumes recorded on the same tour.
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SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording performances at Jazzhus Montmartre, where many American expatriates played, and was given permission by some of the artists to release the material on record.
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In his review for AllMusic, Don Snowden states "On Tour, Vol. 1 shows an impressive musical range, great command of dynamics and is just loaded with really sharp, smart, excellent music once it hits its stride. And it's probably the least exciting of these three discs released from a tour that should have established Billy Harper's quintet as a major group in the jazz world". [3]
AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.
All compositions by Billy Harper except as indicated
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