YOSUKE YAMASHITA TRIO – Sunayama (LP-1978-Frasco – FS-7025)

Label: Frasco – FS-7025

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Japan / Released: 1978

Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation

Recorded at Victor Studio, Tokyo, Japan on June 21 and 22, 1978.

Producer – Roppei Iwagami

Director – Hiroshi Mitsuoka

Engineer – David Baker, Yoshikira Suzuki

Manufactured By – Nippon Phonogram Co., Ltd.

Original Japanese press from 1978 on the Frasco label with obi and insert.

A  -  Sunayama ........................................................................ 18:58

B1 - Usagi No Dance - Dedicated To Pepi .............................. 15:06

B2 - Anomachi Konomachi ........................................................ 5:01

Yosuke Yamashita – piano

Akira Sakata – alto saxophone

Shohta Koyama – druma, percussion

with

Yasuaki Shimizu – tenor saxophone

Hitoshi Okano – trumpet

Kenji Nakazawa – trumpet

Shigeharu Mukai – trombone

Kiyoshi Sugimoto – guitar (track B1)

Sunayama, recorded at Victor Studio, Tokyo (june 1978) featured standard Yamashita trio: piano – Yosuke Yamashita, alto saxophone – Akira Sakata and drums – Shohta Koyama with: tenor saxophone – Yasuaki Shimizu, two trumpets – Hitoshi Okano and Kenji Nakazawa, trombone – Shigeharu Mukai and guitar – Kiyoshi Sugimoto on track B1.

Topnotch album !!!

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YOSUKE YAMASHITA TRIO – Hot Menu - Live At The Newport Jazz Festival (LP-1979-Frasco – FS-7028)

Label: Frasco – FS-7028

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

Style: Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation

Recorded live on June 29, 1979 at "Jazz at the Symphony", as part of Newport Jazz Festival

Design – Koga Hirano

Photography By – Yukio Ichikawa

Management – Jam Rice

Music Director – Hiroshi Mitsuka

Engineer [Recording & Mixing Engineer] – David Baker

Producer [For Frasco] – Yosuke Yamashita

Producer [For Jamrice] – Roppei Iwagami

A1 - Introduction - Rabbit Dance (Usagi No Dance) ................... 14:50

A2 - Mina's Second Theme ......................................................... 10:03

B  -  Sunayama ........................................................................... 14:20

Yosuke Yamashita – piano

Akira Sakata – alto saxophone, alto clarinet

Shohta Koyama – drums, percussion

Beginning in the '70s, his trio toured widely and played many major European events, including the Berlin and Montreux jazz festivals. Yamashita's U.S. debut was at the 1979 Newport Jazz Festival; he also recorded with members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago around that time.

June 29, 1979 in the "Jazz at the Symphony", as part of the Newport Jazz Festival, New York, Yosuke Yamashita Trio presented in the best way, material from their latest studio album „Sunayama“.

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YOSUKE YAMASHITA TRIO – Umbrella Dance (LP-1977)

Label: Frasco – FS-7022

Format: Vinyl, LP / Country: Japan / Released: 1977

Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation

Recorded June 16, 1977 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, West Germany.

Design [Album Design] – Hideomi Ishikawa

Producer – Horst Weber

Assistant producer by – Roppei Iwagami

Engineer [Recording Engineering] – Miyasaka Tsuyoshi

Composed by – Yosuke Yamashita

A1 - Umbrella Dance Part I ........................................................ 4:59

A2 - Umbrella Dance Part II a .................................................. 15:36

B1 - Umbrella Dance Part II b .................................................... 6:30

B2 - Umbrella Dance Part III ..................................................... 12:51

Yosuke Yamashita – piano

Akira Sakata – alto saxophone, alto clarinet

Shohta Koyama – drums, percussion

Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Umbrella Dance, original Japanese press from 1977 on the Frasco label (Frasco FS-7022). One of the best my acquisitions in recent years, completely preserved vinyl, does not have a single scratch. A beautiful design. Yamashita Trio with Shohta Koyama on drums, this one. Just about to spin it!

Japanese pianist Yosuke Yamashita (1942) formed a bass-less trio in 1969 with drummer Takeo Moriyama and tenorist Seiichi Nakamura, documented by the live albums Dancing Kojiki (july 1969), Jazz In Tokyo '69 (august 1969) and Concert In New Jazz (september 1969), and by the studio albums Mina's Second Theme(october 1969) and Mokujiki (january 1970), by the live albums Trio By Trio + One (may 1970), '70 Jazz Festival In Nemu (july 1970) and Summer Jazz In Tokyo (august 1970), and finally by the studio album April Fool/ Coming Muhammad Ali (november 1971).

Alto saxophonist Akira Sakata took Nakamura's place in 1973. The jams of the trio (and the pianist's stormy style) were captured on Live 1973 (july 1973), that contained a 19-minute version of Yamashita's Ballad for Takeo (19:01) and a 22-minute version of Akira Sakata's Zubo (22:22), Yosuke Yamashita Trio(november 1973), Clay (june 1974), with his signature theme Clay, Frozen Days(september 1974), Chiasma (june 1975),Banslikana (july 1976), Arashi (september 1976). 

Shohta Koyama replaced Moriyama on Umbrella Dance (june 1977)...

...

A great moment of Japanese free jazz, one of my favorite albums. Enjoy, and if you can, necessarily to purchase this trio. The magic is intoxicating, is waiting for you.

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YOSUKE YAMASHITA TRIO + GERALD OSHITA + DAIRAKUDAKAN – Arashi (2LP-1977)

                                                                                                          Back cover - detail

Label : Frasco – FS-7019/20

Format : 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album; Country: Japan - Releazed: 1977

Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation

(reissue 2007, Super Fuji Discs, FJSP-38/39, 2-CD set)

Recorded live at Nihon Seinenkan Hall, September 29, 1976

Engineered by – Tsuyoshi Miyasaka

Produced by – Yosuke Yamashita

Original design by – Koga Hirano

Photos by – Haruhisa Yamaguchi and Takumi Uchida

Ingenious Japanese Avant-Free Jazz rarity, double vinyl, Yosuke Yamashita Trio: "Arashi" (Storm), recorded live in 1977.

A1 - Moonlight Desert  (11:57)

A2 - Flower Corpse  (6:06)

A3 - Prelude by Gong and Human Voices  (3:28)

A4 - Ghosts Part I  (2:14)

B1 - Ghosts Part II  (4:20)

B2 - Golden Veins of a Leaf  (4:03)

B3 - Nihility Mobs: Interlude by Footsteps  (1:47)

B4 - An Age Is a Sunlight Coming through the Foliage of the Woods  (10:21)

B5 - Theme for Arashi  (2:58)

C1 - Great Nihility Conference: Part I-V  (21:07)

C2 - A Hairstic and a Liliputian Part I  (0:51)

D1 - A Hairstic and a Liliputian Part II  (0:17)

D2 - A Fan and a Doll  (0:49)

D3 - The Future War  (0:46)

D4 - Forest in Forest Shade  (1:01)

D5 - Theme for Arashi  (18:43)

D6 - Moonlight Desert  (2:55)

Yosuke Yamashita Trio:

Yosuke Yamashita: piano, percussion

Akira Sakata: alto saxophone, clarinet, percussion

Shohta Koyama: drums, percussion

Gerald Oshita: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, percussion

Dairakudakan (Maro Akaji, Ushio Amagatsu, Ko Murobushi, Tetsuro Tamura, Man Uno, Naohiko Torii, Kosei Inao, Nanten Harada, Junpei Sakai, Yosuke Matsuzawa, Mutsuko Tanaka, Anzu Furukawa, and Keiko Katsumata): Butoh dance

And finally, a masterpiece. So what does that free jazz of Albert Ayler have in common with Japanese trio, discover themselves.

Yosuke Yamashita Trio with Gerald Oshita and Dairakudakan, Recorded live at Nihon Seinenkan Hall, September 29, 1976.

Enjoy!

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