Greetings and Salutations is a 1975 big band

Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...

 jazz album recorded by the Swedish Radio Jazz Group with Thad Jones

Thad Jones

Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.-Biography:Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten . Thad Jones was a self taught musician, performing professionally by the age of sixteen...

, Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis was an American drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents....

 and Jon Faddis

Jon Faddis

Jon Faddis is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education...

 as guest bandleader / performers. The album was nominated for a 1978 Grammy award in the Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band category.

Track listing

1. "61st And Rich'it" – 8:15
2. "The Waltz You Swang For Me" – 7:23
3. "Forever Lasting" – 6:59
4. "Love To One" – 4:19
5. "Greetings And Salutations" – 13:37

additional bonus tracks on reissues (from 1977 recording session):

6. "Mach 2" (Scott

Rhoda Scott

Rhoda Scott is an African-American hard bop and soul jazz organist.The daughter of an AME minister, Scott spent much of her childhood in New Jersey, where she learned to play organ in the churches where her father served. Soon she herself was serving frequently as organist for youth and gospel...

) – 4:52

7. "Rhoda's Map" – 5:04

8. "My Centennial" – 9:48

Personnel

Original 1975 recording session (tracks 1~5):

• Thad Jones
  Thad Jones
  Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.-Biography:Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten . Thad Jones was a self taught musician, performing professionally by the age of sixteen...
  
   – cornet
• Jon Faddis
  Jon Faddis
  Jon Faddis is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education...
  
   – trumpet
• Americo Bellotto – trumpet
• Bertil Lövgren – trumpet
• Jan Allan – trumpet
• Torgny Nilsson – trombone
• Lars Olofsson – trombone
• Bengt Edwardsson – trombone
• Sven Larson – trombone
• Lennart Åberg – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute
• Claes Rosendahl – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
• Erik Nilsson – baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
• Wåge Finer – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
• Rune Falk – tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Håkan Nyquist – french horn
• Sven Åke Landström – french horn
• Kurt Puke – french horn
• Bengt Olsson – french horn
• Bo Juhlin – tuba
• Rune Gustafsson – guitar
• Bengt Hallberg – piano, electric piano
• Georg Riedel – bass
• Stefan Brolund – electric bass
• Egil Johansen – drums
• Mel Lewis
  Mel Lewis
  Mel Lewis was an American drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents....
  
   – drums

1977 recording session (bonus tracks 6~8):

• Thad Jones
  Thad Jones
  Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.-Biography:Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten . Thad Jones was a self taught musician, performing professionally by the age of sixteen...
  
   – cornet
• Mel Lewis
  Mel Lewis
  Mel Lewis was an American drummer, jazz musician and band leader. He was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York to Russian immigrant parents....
  
   – drums
• ...
• Al Porcino
  Al Porcino
  Al Porcino is an American jazz trumpeter.Porcino began playing professionally in 1943, playing in many big bands of the 1940s and 1950s, including those of Georgie Auld, Louis Prima, Jerry Wald, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, and Chubby Jackson. He played with Woody Herman in 1946, 1949-1950, and again...
  
   – trumpet
• Arne Domnérus
  Arne Domnérus
  Sven Arne Domnérus was a Swedish jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist, popularly nicknamed Dompan....
  
  – reeds
• Bernt Rosengren – reeds
• ...