TAKEO MORIYAMA QUARTET – Flush Up (LP-1977 / Union Records - Re-1982)

Label: Union Jazz – KUL-5021, Union Records – KUL-5021

Series: Union Jazz 1500 Series – 2nd pressing

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue / Country: Japan / Released: 1982

Style: Avant-garde Jazz, Modal, Free Improvisation

Recorded Live at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, in March 1 and 2, 1977.

Originally release 1977 (Teichiku Records ‎– GM-5008)

Made By – Teichiku Records Co., Ltd.

Engineer – Shinichi Kikuchi

Mastered By – Shuji Sakaguchi

Executive-Producer – Toshio Imai

Matrix / side A, Runout: LS - 5333 X1

Matrix / side B, Runout: LS - 5333 X2

A  -  Flush Up .................................................................................................. 18:13

         (Fumio Itabashi)

B1 - Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise .............................................................. 14:59

         (O. Hammerstein II, S. Romberg)

B2 - Yellow Bear ............................................................................................... 8:09

         (Fumio Itabashi)

Personnel:

Takeo Moriyama – drums, percussion

Fumio Itabashi – piano

Tomoki Takahashi – tenor saxophone, sopranino saxophone

Hideaki Mochizuki – bass

Note:

"Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise" is a song with music by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II from the 1928 operetta The New Moon.

Drummer Takeo Moriyama recorded a live album in 1977, 1 and 2 March at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, the first after the end work with the Yosuke Yamashita Trio.

"Flush Up" and "Yellow Bear" the original songs of Fumio Itabashi who played a musical staff at Takeo Moriyama Quartet during this period. The quartet consists of: drummer Takeo Moriyama, saxophonist Tomoki Takahashi, jazz pianist Fumio Itabashi and bass player Hideaki Mochizuki.

"FLUSH UP" is alongside "HUSH-A-BYE", LP where can fully enjoy the talented masterful performances based on the powerful druming of Moriyama full-length.

A masterpiece of Japanese spiritual jazz.

If you find it, buy this album!