Kenichi Tsunoda

Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band: For J.G.

by Edward Blanco
December 10, 2005

For J.G. is simply titled in honor of “jazz giants" and performed in a tribute to the immortals of the music, the pioneers of the sound, and the legends of this original art form we call jazz. The fourth album by composer/arranger/trombonist Kenichi Tsunoda's world-class big band from Tokyo pays tribute to Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, John Coltrane, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Frank Foster, Jimmy Forrest, and one of Japan's leading promoters of Ellington's music, the late composer ...