Interview / Discography



– Sam Noto / Don Menza Interview
 

Noto Discography (Leader)

 

“ENTRANCE”
Date: March 2, 1975
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Label: Xanadu

Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Noto (t), Barry Harris (p), Leroy Vinnegar (b), Lenny McBrowne (d)
01 Fats’ Flats – 4:27 (Theodore ‘Fats’ Navarro)
02 Lover Man – 6:49 (Roger ‘Ram’ Ramirez, Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman)
03 Entrance! – 4:21 (Sam Noto)
04 Make Believe – 4:02 (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)
05 Nostalgia – 6:02 (Sam Noto)
06 The Things I Love – 5:29 (Harold Barlow, Lewis Harris, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
07 Jen-Jen – 5:58 (Sam Noto)

“ACT ONE”
Date: December 1, 1975
Location: New York City
Label: Xanadu

Sam Noto (ldr), Joe Romano (ts), Sam Noto (t), Barry Harris (p), Sam Jones (b), Billy Higgins (d)
01 Act One – 6:55 (Sam Noto)
02 I Should Care (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn)
03 What Is There To Say (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg)
04 You Are Too Beautiful – 7:45 (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
05 Aries – 5:47 (Sam Noto)
06 Upstate Association – 5:36 (Sam Noto)
07 Wavelength – 6:25 (Sam Noto)
08 Contact – 7:50 (Sam Noto)

“NOTES TO YOU”
Date: May 18, 1977
Location: New York City
Label: Xanadu

Sam Noto (ldr), Joe Romano (ts), Ronnie Cuber (bar), Sam Noto (t), Jimmy Rowles (p), Sam Jones (b), Freddie Waits (d)
01 Quasinoto – 5:52 (Sam Noto)
02 ‘Round Midnight – 5:49 (Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Bernie Hanighen)
03 Parley – 8:05 (Sam Noto)
04 Cross Chris – 7:07 (Sam Noto)
05 Notes To You – 7:25 (Sam Noto)
06 Conclusions – 5:37 (Sam Noto)

“NOTO-RIETY”
Date: October 17, 1978
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Label: Xanadu

Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Most (f), Sam Noto (t), Dolo Coker (p), Monty Budwig (b), Frank Butler (d)
01 Fine Wine – 6:52 (Sam Noto)
02 To Me Everything Happens – 4:50 (Sam Noto)
03 Spanish Coffee – 6:44 (Sam Noto)
04 Sunbird – 5:10 (Sam Noto)
05 Lady Arleen – 4:03 (Sam Noto)
06 Noto-riety – 6:58 (Sam Noto)

Date: November 2, 1986
Location: Toronto, Canada
Label: Unisson Records

Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Noto (t, fh), Neil Swainson (b)
01 Beautiful Love – 3:56 (Young, Gillespie, King, Alstyne)
02 Dance Of The Infidels – 4:57 (Bud Powell)
03 Easy Living – 6:21 (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger)

Date: November 16, 1986
Location: Toronto, Canada
Label: Unisson Records

Sam Noto (ldr), Sam Noto (t, fh), Gary Williamson (p), Steve Wallace (b), Bob McLaren (d)
01 Blue Haze – 5:43 (Sam Noto)
02 I Remember Clifford – 5:05 (Benny Golson)

“2-4-5”
Date: June 12, 1987
Location: Toronto, Canada
Label: Unisson Records

Sam Noto (ldr), Pat La Barbera (ts), Sam Noto (t, fh), Gary Williamson (p), Steve Wallace (b), Bob McLaren (d)
04 Bird’s Eye View – 5:16 (Sam Noto)
01 Tunnels – 4:50 (Sam Noto)
03 Blue Bird – 2:36 (Charlie Parker)
05 Sonny Side – 5:42 (Edward ‘Sonny’ Stitt)

“NOW HEAR THIS”
Date: 1999
Label: Supermono

Sam Noto (ldr), Kirk MacDonald (ts), Sam Noto (t), Mark Eisenman (p), Steve Wallace (b), Bob McLaren (d)
01 Spring Again – 7:30 (Sam Noto)
02 No Room At The Rex – 5:06 (Sam Noto)
03 Reminiscing – 10:19 (Sam Noto)
04 Soul Fats – 8:16 (Sam Noto)
05 Now Hear This – 9:48 (Sam Noto)
06 How Deep Is The Ocean – 9:27 (Irving Berlin)
07 Not Me – 7:38 (Sam Noto)
08 The Things I Love – 4:13 (Harold Barlow, Lewis Harris, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)

Noto Discography (Sideman)

with Stan Kenton

with Red Rodney

  • Superbop (1974 Vedette Records)

with Rob McConnell

  • The Jazz Album (1976  Sea Breeze Records)
  • Live in Digital (1980  Sea Breeze Records)
  • Night Flight (1993  Sea Breeze Records)

with Kenny Drew

with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon