"This was Bud Shank"s final performance with his quartet. What a way to go out--roaring, full of life, full of fun, full of music--with a rhythm section he loved in the town where he shaped his career. `We haven"t lived in Los Angeles in years," he told the Jazz Bakery audience in January 2009, `and it"s really good to be home." -- Doug Ramsey "A charter member of the `West Coast" jazz movement, Shank"s cool but always strongly swinging sound has made him one of a handful of saxophone players with an instantly recognizable and always exciting sound. Bud Shank has more than earned his status as a legend." -- All About Jazz "An alto saxophonist and flutist who helped propel cool-school West Coast jazz to prominence in the 1950s and fostered the melding of American and Brazilian music that created the bossa nova ... a versatile player, both as a sideman and bandleader, in a wide variety of musical arenas, from big band swing to symphonic to pop, with a wide variety of collaborators." -- New York Times "Shank"s sound, somewhere between Phil Woods and Lee Konitz, has added so much grit since his early days on the sound stages of Los Angeles." -- JazzTimes * Cover Sticker: Alto sax legend Bud Shank"s final recording as leader. * Recorded live in 2009 at LA"s world famous Jazz Bakery. * Features longtime Bud Shank Quartet members Bill Mays, Bob Magnusson, and Joe LaBarbera. * A diverse album of straight-ahead jazz featuring different time signatures and rhythmic elements. * Mailing to over 80 print/internet journalists, and over 120 JazzWeek stations and other radio/internet outlets. Bud Shank: alto saxophone Bill Mays: piano Bob Magnusson: bass Joe LaBarbera: drums * Chicane * Over the Rainbow * Fascinating Rhythm * Night and Day * Lotus Bud/No More Blues * In Walked Bud * Lover Man * Manteca