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 LP 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.
Contents
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