SAKATA ORCHESTRA – 4 O'Clock (LP-1981-Better Days – YF-7026-N)

Label: Better Days – YF-7026-N

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Japan / Released: 1981

Style: Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Experimental, Avant-garde Jazz

Recorded At – Nippon Columbia Studio 1981

Illustration – Izumi Takao

Cover – Tztom Toda

Design – Hitoshi Nagasawa

Photography By – Sho Kikuchi

Directed By – Tomohiro Saito

Engineer, Mixed By – Kazuhiro Tokieda

Mixed By – Kazuhiro Tokieda

Producer – Pochi Kashiwabara

A1 - What Time Is It? ....................................................................... 8:21

A2 - 4 O'Clock ................................................................................ 11:12

B1 - E? E!! E? .................................................................................. 9:51

B2 - Trapper .................................................................................... 8:50

All songs composed and arranged by – Akira Sakata

Musicians:

Akira Sakata – alto saxophone, alto clarinet

Kasutoki Umezu – alto saxophone, bass clarinet

Yoriyuki Harada – bass clarinet

Tomoki Takahashi – tenor saxophone

Seiichi Nakamura – tenor saxophone, clarinet

Ichiko Hashimoto – fortepiano

Shuichi Chino – fortepiano, organ

Shinji Yasuda – trumpet

Haruki Satoh – trombone

Shigeharu Mukai – trombone, bass trombone

Hiroshi Yoshino – bass

Tamio Kawabata – electric bass

Nobuo Fujii, Tony Koba – drums, percussion

Kiyohiko Semba – percussion

Incredible work, Akira Sakata Orchestra (information on the web is very scarce) on this album is create a monstrous specimen of free-jazz, intense improvisations of saxophone and piano, incisive bass, playful rhythm section, best wild jazz with fast movements and rapid pace, ever is changing, collapse, again manic lifting, This is pure hell here.

I think that this album should be in every collection of free-jazz improvisations.

Enjoy!

If you find it, buy this album!