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Jon & Billy

1974 studio album by Jon Faddis and Billy Harper

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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.

01Reception

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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".

02Track 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

03Personnel

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