LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

• Incredible performance from Tokyo
• Includes the entire NHK radio broadcast
• Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality
• Background liners

Herbie Hancock and Carlos Santana, live from Den-en Coliseum, Tokyo 26th July 1981

Live Under the Sky was an annual multi-day summer jazz festival held in Tokyo’s 10,000-capacity Denen Hall, featuring the cream of local and international talent. The climax of 1981’s festival, broadcast by NHK radio was a jointly headlined set by Herbie Hancock and Carlos Santana, together with a band including Wynton Marsalis, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. A joyous blend of jazz and Latin-tinged funk, it’s presented in full here, together with background notes and images.

Track Listing:

Disc 1

• Watermelon Man > Evil Ways > Watermelon Man
• ‘Round Midnight
• Parade
• Unknown
• A Quick Sketch
• Love Theme From Spartacus

Disc 2

• Unknown
• Unknown
• Europa
• Saturday Night