Take Your Pick (album)

2010 studio album by Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto

Take Your Pick

Studio album by

Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto

Released| June 2, 2010
Studio| Larry's Log Cabin, Franklin, TN
Eclectic Studio, Nashville
Rodeo Recording, Los Angeles
Birdman West, Tokyo
Gardenia Studio, Tokyo
Genre| Jazz fusion
Length| 61:07
Label| Vermillion (Japan)
335 Records (US)
Forward (Taiwan)
Producer| Larry Carlton
Tak Matsumoto
Larry Carlton chronology
| Plays the Sound of Philadelphia
(2010)  | Take Your Pick
(2010)  | Four Hands and a Heart, Volume One
(2012)

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Tak Matsumoto chronology
| Theatre of Strings
(2005)  | Take Your Pick
(2010)  | Strings of My Soul
(2012)

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Take Your Pick is an album by guitarists Larry Carlton and Tak Matsumoto that was released by Vermillion on June 2, 2010, in Japan, and later on 335 Records in the US and on Forward in Taiwan. The album debuted at number 2 on the Japanese Oricon weekly album charts. The album won an award for Best Pop Instrumental Album at the 53rd Grammy Awards.[1][2] It also won the "Jazz Album of the Year" award at 25th Japan Gold Disc Awards.[3]

## Track listing[edit]

All songs arranged by Larry Carlton, Tak Matsumoto & Hideyuki Terachi

No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Jazzy Bullets"| Tak Matsumoto| 4:22
2.| "Nite Crawler 2010"| Larry Carlton| 6:08
3.| "The Way We Were"| Matsumoto| 4:57
4.| "Islands of Japan"| Carlton| 4:38
5.| "Neon Blue"| Carlton| 6:16
6.| "Tokyo Night"| Matsumoto| 4:33
7.| "Hotalu"| Matsumoto| 4:52
8.| "East West Stroll"| Carlton| 5:30
9.| "Easy Mystery"| Carlton| 5:11
10.| "Ao"| Matsumoto| 4:08
11.| "Take Your Pick"| Carlton| 4:49
12.| "A Girl from China"| Matsumoto| 5:36
Total length:| 61:07

## Musicians[edit]

* Larry Carlton – guitar
* Tak Matsumoto – guitar
* Mike Haynes – trumpet
* Osamu Ueishi – trumpet
* Barry Green – trombone
* Azusa Tojo – trombone
* Mark Douthit – saxophone
* Watanabe Fire – saxophone
* Kazuhiro Takeda – saxophone
* Jeff Babko – keyboards
* Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
* Billy Kilson – drums

## References[edit]

1. ^ ピアニスト内田光子に米グラミー賞、B'z松本孝弘も共作で受賞 (in Japanese). Reuters. February 14, 2011. Retrieved February 14, 2011.
2. ^ Wawzenek, Bryan (February 14, 2011). "Larry Carlton and Tak Matsumoto Take Home a Grammy". Gibson Guitar Corporation. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
3. ^ "The Japan Gold Disc Award 2011" (in Japanese). RIAJ. Retrieved 22 November 2018.

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Albums|

* The Hit Parade (2003)
* Take Your Pick (2010)
* New Horizon (2014)
* enigma (2016)
* Electric Island, Acoustic Sea (2017)

Related articles|

* B'z
* Tak Matsumoto Group

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* MusicBrainz release group

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