Trip to Moscow

Trip to Moscow
Studio album by Valery Ponomarev
Released	1988
Recorded	April 11, 1988
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	54:41
Label	Reservoir RSR CD 107
Producer	Mark Feldman
Valery Ponomarev chronology
Means of Identification (1987) Trip to Moscow (1988) Profile (1991)

Trip to Moscow is an album by trumpeter Valery Ponomarev which was recorded in 1988 and released on the Reservoir label.^[1]

Reception

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

In his review on AllMusic, Scott Yanow called it an "excellent outing" stating: "For his second Reservoir set, trumpeter Valery Ponomarev performs six of his originals, which are dedicated to different aspects of the Russian homeland from where he had emigrated 15 years earlier ... the music is mostly strictly hard bop, quite accessible and hard-swinging".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Valery Ponomarev except where noted

1. "Same Place, Same Time" – 8:03
2. "Gettin' to Bolshoi" – 7:42
3. "Gorky Park" – 8:06
4. "Trip to Moscow" – 9:16
5. "For You Only" – 7:59
6. "The Best Thing for You" (Irving Berlin) – 4:36
7. "Tell Me When/Skazshi Kagda" – 8:59

Personnel

• Valery Ponomarev – trumpet
• Ralph Moore – tenor saxophone
• Larry Willis – piano
• Dennis Irwin – bass
• Victor Jones – drums

References