TERUMASA HINO – Wheel Stone - Live In Nemuro (East Wind / LP-1979)

Label: East Wind – 15PJ-1002

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Japan / Released: 1979

Style: Avant-garde, Modal, Free Improvisation

Recorded live, April 8, 1975 at the Nemuro-Shi Kohmikan.

Design [Album Design] – Heyqlow Kobayashi

Album Director – Hiroshi Mitsuka, Nobuo Kondoh

Photography By [Back-Cover] – Masakatsu Sasaki

Photography By [Cover] – Fumio Tomita

Engineer – Masayoshi Ohkawa, Toshiaki Kanazawa

Executive-Producer – Toshinari Koinuma

Producer – Kiyoshi Itoh

Liner Notes – Shun-ichi Morita

Matrix / Runout (side A): EW-8065-A 15PJ-1002 - 1

Matrix / Runout (side B): EW-8065-B 15PJ-1002 - 2

A - Mocco .................................................................................................... 21:24

B - In The Darkness .................................................................................... 15:35

Written-By – Terumasa Hino

Personnel:

Terumasa Hino – trumpet, flugelhorn

Hideo Miyata – tenor saxophone

Fumio Itabashi – piano, electric piano

Kiyoshi Sugimoto – electric guitar

Tsutomu Okada – bass

Motohiko Hino – drums

Yuhji Imamura – percussion

A live recording that brought the legendary playing style of Terumasa Hino before he embarked on a national tour 1975. There are two original long tracks in front of us, rhythmic embodiment in the thrilling " Mokko" and "Into the Darkness," recorded in the " live -in-the- concert," format.

A searing performance from this brilliant Japanese trumpeter – working here at the height of his stretched-out, open-ended powers – but with a style that's a bit more inside than some of his work from the start of the 70s! Hino really shows himself to be a great leader here – working with a group that includes Hideo Miyata on tenor, Kiyoshi Sugimoto on guitar, and Fumio Itabashi on some especially great Fender Rhodes and piano – a wonderful player who really gives the album a solid grounding, which then allows the horn players to really soar! Hino's really finding his voice here – growing into one of the best trumpet talents of his generation – and this is his first volume of two, recorded at Nemuro-Shi Kohmikan.

If you find it, buy this album!