Credits:

Makoto Ozone

Description:

Previously unreleased live album by the Super Quartet led by Makoto Ozone. A live recording of Makoto Ozone's annual Christmas concert held in Tokyo in December 2013 by the Super Quartet has finally been released 10 years after the performance. Ozone, Branford Marsalis, and Jeff "Taine" Watts studied together at Berklee College of Music in the early 1980s, and at the time were old acquaintances who performed together in Boston. And in 2012, Ozone, Thein, and Christian McBride released a trio album, "My Witch's Blue. All of the pieces performed are original compositions by Ozone. From "Encounter," which was written especially for this stage, the band delivers dynamic, straight-ahead jazz. Branford Marsalis and Rob "Wacko" Hunter are in charge of mixing.