Direct from L.A.

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Direct from L.A. | type = Studio | artist = The Great Jazz Trio | cover = Direct from LA.jpg | alt = | released = 1978 | recorded = October 6, 1977 | venue = | studio = Warner Brothers Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA | genre = Jazz | length = 28:59 | label = East Wind<br><small>EW-10005</small> | producer = Kiyoshi Itoh and Yasohachi Itoh | chronology = Hank Jones | prev_title = Tiptoe Tapdance | prev_year = 1978 | next_title = Milestones | next_year = 1978 }}

'''''Direct from L.A.''''' is an album by the Great Jazz Trio featuring pianist Hank Jones, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Tony Williams, recorded using direct metal mastering in 1977 for the Japanese East Wind label.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/the-great-jazz-trio/catalog/#east-wind-ew-10005 The Great Jazz Trio Catalog] accessed August 3, 2015</ref><ref>[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/eastwind.htm East Wind Records List] accessed August 3, 2015</ref>

== Reception == {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }} AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and its review by Ken Dryden states, "If there's a bone to pick with this well-recorded CD, it is the miserly length of just 29 minutes".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Ken |last=Dryden |class=album |id=mw0000927195 |title=''The Great Jazz Trio Direct from L.A.'' – Review |accessdate=August 3, 2015}}</ref>

==Track listing== # "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 8:00 # "'Round About Midnight" (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen) – 6:13 # "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn) – 8:26 # "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 6:20

== Personnel == *Hank Jones – piano *Ron Carter – bass *Tony Williams – drums

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Category:1978 albums Category:Great Jazz Trio albums Category:East Wind Records albums