Betwixt & Between is an album by American jazz trombonists Kai Winding and J. J. Johnson featuring performances recorded in 1968 and released on the CTI label.CTI Records discography accessed February 9, 2012 The album features jazz interpretations of popular tunes linked by brief Baroque interludes.
Reception The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars and stated "there are experiments all over this quintessentially '60s project... A fascinating, no doubt controversial, record".Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review accessed February 9, 2012
Track listing "Casa Forte/Bach Chorale #237" (Edu Lobo/Johann Sebastian Bach) - 4:20 "Betwixt & Between/Plus Nine" (Anthony Dorsey/Kai Winding) - 3:30 "Little Drummer Boy/Troika" (Katherine Kennicott Davis/Bach) - 2:10 "Don't Go Love, Don't Go/Bach Chorale #241" (J. A. Ryan, Jim Lacy/Bach) - 3:30 "Mojave/Bach Chorale #134" (Antônio Carlos Jobim/Bach) - 3:30 "Stormy" (Buddy Buie, James Cobb) - 2:40 "Smoky/Onion Rings Rondo" (J. J. Johnson/Kai Winding) - 3:20 "Wichita Lineman/Bach Invention #4" (Jimmy Webb/Bach) - 3:04 "Just a Funky Old Vegetable Bin/Bach Invention #1" (Roger Kellaway/Bach) - 3:20 "Willie, Come Home" (J. Millar, R, George) - 3:30 Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on October 22 & 29, November 15 & 26 and December 5, 1968 and January 9, 1969
Personnel J. J. Johnson, Kai Winding - trombone, arranger Marvin Stamm - flugelhorn Tony Studd - bass trombone Paul Ingraham - French horn Herbie Hancock - piano Charles Covington - organ Roger Kellaway - clavinet, arranger Joe Beck, Eric Gale, Stuart Scharf - guitar Chuck Domanico, Russell George, Chuck Rainey - electric bass Ron Carter - bass Leo Morris, Denny Seiwell - drums Airto Moreira - drums, finger cymbals Warren Smith - tambourine Fred Buldrini, Lewis Eley, Harry Glickman, Emanuel Green, George Ockner, Raoul Poliakin, Max Pollikoff, Joyce Robbins, Aaron Rosand, Tosha Samaroff, Julius Schacter, Jack Zayde - violin
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