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African American, Al Foster, Bassist, Buster Williams, Composer, entertainment, Herbie Hancock, In+Out Records, McCoy Tyner, Music, oscars, Shunzo Ohno, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, woody shaw
Buster Williams -][- SOMETHING MORE –Mp3– [In+Out Records, 2011-|-1989] –
. . . What more could you want? This late eighties classic session on the German label In & Out (who also brought us the great and largely unheard band Roots) features Herbie Hancock (piano and keyboards), Wayne Shorter (soprano and tenor sax), Al Foster (drums), and the brilliant (and largely unknown) Japanese trumpeter Shunzo Ohno. With leader Buster Williams, who has played with Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Freddie Hubbard, Chet Baker, Woody Shaw, and McCoy Tyner, this is a killer band. Somehow, this disc has flown almost completely under the radar. And that’s a shame, given the level of playing consistently on display. Continue reading