Trains

Steps Ahead, a jazz collective that originally formed in 1980, has featured a rotating roster of jazz greats and a catalogue of wonderful recordings.  Of those recordings, the Live In Tokyo 1986 album stands out, thanks in part to their original composition, Trains. 

Our performance features an arrangement of the Steps Ahead piece set by Japanese trumpeter Eric Miyashiro and recorded with his Tokyo Jazz All Stars in the height of the COVID pandemic.  This arrangement, based on the 1986 Tokyo recording, is hopeful, reflective, driving, and exciting.  

This arrangement can be purchased through Sierra Music Publishing.