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!
