A Touch of Class is a big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra in Warsaw, Poland in November 1978. The first three tracks, together with a 14-minute version of "Fingers", were previously released in Poland on a Poljazz LPThad Jones Mel Lewis 2 at antiknarynku.cz. Accessed 2012 May 3 and all tracks were also included on the 2007 compilation album, Thad Jones Mel Lewis Orchestra In Europe and on the 2009 compilation CD, The Complete Poland Concerts 1976 & 1978.
Track listing "Quietude" (Thad Jones) – 7:26 "Samba Con Get Chu" (Bob Brookmeyer) – 13:35 "Cecilia Is Love" (Frank Foster) – 7:06 "I Love You" (Cole Porter) – 5:57 "And I Love You So" (Don McLean) – 7:33 "That's Freedom" (Jones) – 9:14
Personnel Thad Jones – flugelhorn Mel Lewis – drums Jim McNeely – piano Jesper Lundgaard – bass Dick Oatts – alto saxophone Steve Coleman – alto saxophone Rich Perry – tenor saxophone Robert Rockwell – tenor saxophone Charles Davis – baritone saxophone Ron Tooley – trumpet Simo Salminen – trumpet Irvin Stokes – trumpet Larry Moss – trumpet Doug Purviance – trombone Lolly Bienenfeld – trombone Lu Robertson – trombone John Mosca – trombone
References
West Wind Jazz WW2402 Poljazz ZSX 697
External links Allmusic [ link]