HANK JONES AND SADAO WATANABE

Hank Jones is so pro-Japanese musician. Then, who is most collaborated with Hank ?? Of course he should be Sadao Watanabe !!

Official album;

AA: I’M OLD FASHINED (1976) with The Great Jazz Trio

BB: BIRD OF PARADISE (1977) with The Great Jazz Trio

Jazz Festival;

CC: Live Under the Sky ’78 Galaxy All-Stars Night

It was a so called “ALL STARS” performance with several session.

Sadao Watanabe with The Great Jazz Trio (Hank Jones, Ron Carter and Tony Williams)

CONFIRMATION, I’M OLD FASHIONED and MOOSE THE MOOCHE

DD: Tokyo Jazz 2006

Session 1= The Great Jazz Trio with Hank Jones (p), John Patitucci (b) and Omar Hakim (ds) with special guest, Sadao Watanabe (as)

Session 2= Grand Finale with session 1 members+ Chick Corea, Hiromi Uehara and Austin Peralta.

In any session, collaboration of Hank Jones and Sadao Watanabe is so nice !!

Of course so many other Japanese musicians enjoyed playing with Hank. It will be posted some days later.