Digital album released in Germany, from the collection of ten CD's 'Strictly Dancing' dedicated to different ballroom dance styles. The Tony Anderson String Orchestra presents a repertoire of eighteen topics in walzer dance styles (Viennese and slow), especially suitable for ballroom or competition dancing and parties. Accurate cuts and generally splendid items to enjoy Walzer dancing.
Excellent historywise, poor soundwise. A welcome '65 live recording by a band famous for including a young Jon Anderson at harmony vocals, though you wouldn't know by hearing only. Typical repertoire for the era, quite competent playing, excellent guitar parts sometimes sounding well ahead of their time…
File under "Yes." When this version of the band couldn't obtain rights to the name, they put their album out under their combined names, but it's still Yes by any other name. Jon Anderson's tenor wails through spacy lyrics, Rick Wakeman constructs cathedrals of synthesized sound, Steve Howe rips high-pitched guitar leads, and Bill Bruford makes his drums sound like timpani. For all that, it's a pedestrian effort for these veterans, not as bombastic as some of their stuff, not as inspired as others, but it definitely has the "Yes" sound. "She Gives Me Love" even refers to "Long Distance Runaround."
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe is the only studio album by four alumni of the progressive rock group Yes: Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, and Steve Howe, released on 20 June 1989 for Arista Records.
I found this original "6-eye" pressing in great shape.
A class act quartet led by German-based Hungarian tenor and soprano saxophonist Tony Lakatos, with Jim McNeeley, piano; Jay Anderson, bass and Adam Nussbaum, drums…