The Story
The new album by pianist Charles Chen feat. Bill Crow, drummer Steve Little & guitarist Félix Lemerle playing timeless standards & jazz classics.
The Long Way Home is a jazz piano album recorded live in New York, featuring two of the most seasoned rhythm section players in the world: bassist Bill Crow (98) and drummer Steve Little (91), both still holding down a weekly residency at Smalls Jazz Club. Pianist Charles Chen and guitarist Félix Lemerle join them for a set of timeless standards and jazz classics -- from Oscar Pettiford to Sam Cooke to Duke Ellington -- before the album takes an unexpected turn: Bill and Steve sit down and tell their stories. Between them, they've played with Sam Cooke, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Art Tatum, Gerry Mulligan, and Duke Ellington himself. The Long Way Home is part concert, part road trip, part living history -- a reminder that the best jazz musicians never really stop moving.
Track Listing
- Laverne Walk
- You Turned The Tables On Me
- Dream Dancing
- Squatty Roo
- On The Alamo
- You Send Me
- Ellington Medley: Prelude to a Kiss
- Ellington Medley: I Got It Bad
- Ellington Medley: Sophisticated Lady
- Yours Is My Heart Alone
- Poor Butterfly
- Steve Little: Introduction
- Steve Little: Orchestra Years
- Steve Little: Jazz Background
- Steve Little: Commercial Work
- Steve Little: Why I Quit Traveling
- Steve Little: Duke Ellington
- Steve Little: Duke's Drum Charts
- Steve Little: Charlie Barrett
- Steve Little: Love-Hate Relationship With Jazz
- Steve Little: Memorable Commercial Work
- Steve Little: Copacabana
- Steve Little: Ryo Sasaki and Bill Crow
- Bill Crow: Origins
- Bill Crow: Stan Getz, Claude Thornhill
- Bill Crow: Marian McPartland
- Bill Crow: Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims
- Bill Crow: Fred Zimmerman
- Bill Crow: Gerry Mulligan Playing Backgrounds
- Bill Crow: Teddy Wilson
- Bill Crow: Art Tatum, Bud Powell
- Bill Crow: Influences
- Bill Crow: Norman Granz, Picasso
- Bill Crow: Paul Chambers, Curtis Fuller, Miles Davis
- Bill Crow: Jo Jones, Walter Page
- Bill Crow: Charlie Parker
Additional Details
Label: Cellar live
Genre: Jazz
Language: English
Run Time: 60 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 06/19/26
UPC: 628308831715
Description
The new album by pianist Charles Chen feat. Bill Crow, drummer Steve Little & guitarist Félix Lemerle playing timeless standards & jazz classics.
The Long Way Home is a jazz piano album recorded live in New York, featuring two of the most seasoned rhythm section players in the world: bassist Bill Crow (98) and drummer Steve Little (91), both still holding down a weekly residency at Smalls Jazz Club. Pianist Charles Chen and guitarist Félix Lemerle join them for a set of timeless standards and jazz classics -- from Oscar Pettiford to Sam Cooke to Duke Ellington -- before the album takes an unexpected turn: Bill and Steve sit down and tell their stories. Between them, they've played with Sam Cooke, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Art Tatum, Gerry Mulligan, and Duke Ellington himself. The Long Way Home is part concert, part road trip, part living history -- a reminder that the best jazz musicians never really stop moving.
Track Listing
- Laverne Walk
- You Turned The Tables On Me
- Dream Dancing
- Squatty Roo
- On The Alamo
- You Send Me
- Ellington Medley: Prelude to a Kiss
- Ellington Medley: I Got It Bad
- Ellington Medley: Sophisticated Lady
- Yours Is My Heart Alone
- Poor Butterfly
- Steve Little: Introduction
- Steve Little: Orchestra Years
- Steve Little: Jazz Background
- Steve Little: Commercial Work
- Steve Little: Why I Quit Traveling
- Steve Little: Duke Ellington
- Steve Little: Duke's Drum Charts
- Steve Little: Charlie Barrett
- Steve Little: Love-Hate Relationship With Jazz
- Steve Little: Memorable Commercial Work
- Steve Little: Copacabana
- Steve Little: Ryo Sasaki and Bill Crow
- Bill Crow: Origins
- Bill Crow: Stan Getz, Claude Thornhill
- Bill Crow: Marian McPartland
- Bill Crow: Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims
- Bill Crow: Fred Zimmerman
- Bill Crow: Gerry Mulligan Playing Backgrounds
- Bill Crow: Teddy Wilson
- Bill Crow: Art Tatum, Bud Powell
- Bill Crow: Influences
- Bill Crow: Norman Granz, Picasso
- Bill Crow: Paul Chambers, Curtis Fuller, Miles Davis
- Bill Crow: Jo Jones, Walter Page
- Bill Crow: Charlie Parker
Additional Details
Label: Cellar live
Genre: Jazz
Language: English
Run Time: 60 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 06/19/26
UPC: 628308831715
