LIVE UNDER THE SKY . BRECKER . EVANS . TURRENTINE . WATTS

JAZZ / REAL JAZZ / NEW YORK 1989

SELECT LIVE SAXOPHONE WORKSHOP MUSICAL DIRECTED BY DON GROLNICK POLYDOR K.K., J00J 20351(CD) (P)(C)1989 POLYDOR K.K., JAPAN RECORDED: JULY 29, 1989 RELEASED: OCTOBER 1, 1989, JAPAN

CREDITS (productions) :

All songs except "You Don't Know What Love Is" are arranged by Don Grolnick

Recorded live at Select Live Under The Sky '89 The Yomiuri Land, Open Theater East on July 29, 1989 Concert produced by The Yomiuri Shimbun & Koinuma Music Co., Ltd.

Producers: Kazunori Oki and Toshinari Koinuma Musical Director: Don Grolnick

Director: Satoshi "Tetsu" Takahashi A&R: Hiroshi Itsuno

Recorded and mixed by Motonari Matsumoto (SEDIC)

Second Engineers: Shinya Tanaka (Sound Creators Inc.) Yoichi Tokunaga (Sound Creators Inc.) Naoya Takahashi (SEDIC)

Mastering Engineer: Masaaki Kato (Sunrise Studio) Production Manager: Kentaro Ogawa

Art Direction and Design: Ruri Fujita (Isaka Co., Ltd.) Photography: Kame (Front Cover), Junshi Nakamachi (Inner Cover)

This version of "Stratusphunk" is based on the wonderful arrangement by Gil Evans, Whose long and fruitful life in musical will always be a source of inspiration for me. - Don Grolnick

Michael Brecker appears through the courtesy of MCA/Impulse Records

CREDITS (musicians) :

Michael Brecker	:	tenor saxophone
Bill Evans	:	tenor/soprano saxophone
Stanley Turrentine	:	tenor saxophone
Ernie Watts	:	tenor/soprano saxophone
Don Grolnick	:	piano
Yoshio "Chin" Suzuki	:	bass
Adam Nussbaum	:	drums

TRACKS (total time 62:16) :

1.	Stratusphunk (10:08) [George Russell]
2.	The Four Sleeoers / Pools (10:39) [Don Grolnick]
3.	Water Babies (12:49) [Wayne Shorter]
4.	Lover Man (9:26) [James Edward Davis, Roger Ramirez, James Jimmy Sherman]
5.	It Don't Mean A Thing (12:27) [Duke Ellington, Irving Mills]
6.	You Don't Know What Love Is (5:05) [Don Raye, Gene De Paul]

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