Take Your Pick (album)
Encyclopedia
Take Your Pick is an instrumental
studio album by Larry Carlton
and Tak Matsumoto
, released by Vermillion Records
on June 2, 2010 in Japan. The album debuted at number 2 on the Japanese Oricon
weekly album charts. The album won an award for the Best Pop Instrumental Album
at the 53rd Grammy Awards
.
Instrumental
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....
studio album by Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton
Larry Carlton is an American jazz, smooth jazz, jazz fusion, pop, and rock guitarist and singer. He has divided his recording time between solo recordings and session appearances with various well-known bands...
and Tak Matsumoto
Tak Matsumoto
is a Grammy Award-winning Japanese guitarist, producer, arranger, composer, singer and songwriter. In addition to guitarist and lead composer for the hard rock band B'z, he has also had a successful solo career.-Background:...
, released by Vermillion Records
Being (company)
, d.b.a. Being Giza Group, is a Japanese private entertainment conglomerate based in Tokyo's Roppongi district, founded on November 1, 1978 by musician Daiko Nagato. Being Inc. and its subsidiaries are the main supplier of theme music for the anime series Case Closed. As of May 2011, 77 theme tunes...
on June 2, 2010 in Japan. The album debuted at number 2 on the Japanese Oricon
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...
weekly album charts. The album won an award for the Best Pop Instrumental Album
Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album
The Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality instrumental albums in the pop music genre...
at the 53rd Grammy Awards
53rd Grammy Awards
The 53rd annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. They were broadcast on CBS with a rating of 26.6 million viewers. Barbra Streisand was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights prior to the telecast on February 11. Nominations were...
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Tracklisting
- Jazzy Bullets (composed by Matsumoto)
- Nite Crawler 2010 (composed by Carlton)
- The Way We Were (composed by Matsumoto)
- Islands of Japan (composed by Carlton)
- Neon Blue (composed by Carlton)
- Tokyo Night (composed by Matsumoto)
- Hotalu (composed by Matsumoto)
- East West Stroll (composed by Carlton)
- Easy Mystery (composed by Carlton)
- Ao (composed by Matsumoto)
- Take Your Pick (composed by Carlton)
- A Girl from China (composed by Matsumoto)