Label:
Jazz Creaters – JC-1
Format:
Vinyl, LP; Country:
Japan - Released:
1970
Style:
Free Jazz
Recorded in Tokyo, February 1970.
(Album title is read as "Satsujin
Kyoshitsu"; usually translated as "Homicide Classroom".
English translations for the title "Homicide
Classroom" and for track B2 - "Eternal Lyric" were given on the
obi of this release, but not on this LP.)
Recording Engineer by – Kinji Hayashi
Produced, Liner
Notes by – Teruto Soejima (see note)
Photography by – Katsuyuki Oda
Design by – Nobuo Umemori
A1 - 水との会話 "Aporia" . . . 12:09
A2 - 図形的発展 "Spectral" . . . 7:04
B1 - 空間の飛翔 "Papilio" . . . 11:13
B2 - 永遠の詩 "Eternal Lyric" . . . 5:20
ITARU OKI – trumpet, fluegelhorn, cowbell, triangle, bells, Indian bells, wood block,
backet trumpet
KEIKI MIDORIKAWA – bass, piano, gong
HOZUMI TANAKA – drums, gongs, timpani
This
album is now almost impossible to obtain, so it is my pleasure to present it here.
Enjoy!
Note:
Teruto Soejima, Tokyo, Japan
Jazz critic, producer, film artist, at DUG in Shinjuku
Probably
the one person who introduced Japanese Free Jazz to European audiences.
As Producer - Outside Japan:
Since 1979, has produced and organized overseas
performances by over 30 Japanese performing arts groups (jazz, Japanese
traditional music, avant-garde theater, etc.). These include three European
tours (in 1998, 2000, and 2002) by the jazz orchestra Shibusashirazu; a concert
in Germany (in 1995) by the shakuhachi player Hozan Yamamoto; and a tour of
Russia and Lithuania (in 1992) by the improvisational music trio Ton Klami.
2006 - Served as art director of the five-day
festival "Jazz in Japan 2006" in Paris, France.
In Japan:
Has organized such events as the 14-day free jazz
festival Inspiration and Power (in 1974 and 1976), the Pan Music Festival '82,
and the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra Japan Tour (in 1996).
I recommend his books:
Gendai
Jazz no Choryu [Currents in Contemporary Jazz] (1994)
Nihon
Free Jazz-shi [The History of Japanese Free Jazz] (2002)
If you find it, buy this album!
