SADAO WATANABE VS TERUMASA HINO (Rec.1969/1970 - Canyon/LP-1980)

Label: Canyon – C20R0034 C

Format: Vinyl, LP / Country: Japan / Released: 1980

Style: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz Funk, Free Jazz

(A1, A2) Recorded in January 1969.

( B ) Recorded at Upsurge Studio, New York City, March 1970.

Engineer – Kennichi Handa (A1, A2)

Engineer – Tom Di Pietro ( B )

Remix, Edited By – Kennichi Handa

Cover Design – Mitsuru Yamada

Made By – Canyon Records, Inc.

Matrix / Runout: Side 1 C20R0034 C -A

Matrix / Runout: Side 2 C20R0034 C -B

A1 - Sadao Watanabe Quartet – Pastoral ................................................................ 15:00

A2 - Sadao Watanabe Quartet – Round Trip [Coming] ............................................ 10:11

           Sadao Watanabe – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute

           Yoshiaki Masuo – guitar

           Yoshio Suzuki – acoustic bass, electric bass

           Hirotami Tsunoda – drums, percussion

           guest: Kazuo Yashiro – electric piano, piano

B  -  Terumasa Hino – Journey To Air 1 ................................................................... 24:20

           Terumasa Hino – flugelhorn, trumpet 

           Steve Grossman – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, flute 

           Pete Yellin – alto saxophone, flute  

           Gary Pribec – alto saxophone   

           David Liebman – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone  

           Olu Dara – trumpet 

           Mike Garson – piano, electric piano

           Dave Holland – bass, Fender bass

           Lanny Fields – bass, contrabass 

           Teruo Nakamura – bass, contrabass 

           Motohiko Hino – drums, handclaps

           Bobby Moses – drums

It is the 80's planning LP, that coupled the past performances of Japanese jazz pioneer saxophonist Sadao Watanabe and Japan's leading jazz trumpet player Terumasa Hino. Sadao Watanabe in quartet formation, contents that compared the recording work by Terumasa Hino '70 recording work with combo formation.

Japan's jazz where idyllic atmosphere drifts like the title as "Pastoral". "PASTORAL" which became the first album of '69 CBS Sony transferring as organized by Sadao Watanabe, Yoshiaki Masuo , Yoshio Suzuki and Hiro Tsunoda, famous song "Pastoral" which told the opening of the new era, and there is also incredibly goodJazz Funk number "Round Trip [Coming] ".

Terumasa Hino, with the chosen company, saxophone players Steve Grossman, David Liebman, genius trumpeter Ola Dara, pianist Mike Garson, three bassists including Dave Holland, two drummers Motohiko Hino and Bobby Moses will lead us through 24-minute deep free jazz "Journey To Air 1" recorded at Upsurge Studio in New York. (See LP: Group Everything Everything Everything ‎– Hino's "Journey To Air" - Love Records ‎– TP-103).

Very intriguing music. Highly recommended.

If you find it, buy this album!

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.

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MASABUMI KIKUCHI – East Wind (LP-1974)

Label: East Wind - EW-7001

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Japan / Released: 1974

Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation

Recorded July 3, 1974 at Victor Studio, Tokyo

Engineer – Suenori Fukui

Liner Notes – Hisamitsu Noguchi

Mastered By – Stan Ricker

Photography By [Cover] – Hiroshi Satoh

Photography By [Liner] – Toshinari Koinuma, Yukio Ichikawa

Producer – Masaharu Honjoh

A - East Wind ................................. 20:09

B - Green Dance ............................ 23:56

Masabumi Kikuchi – piano

Kohsuke Mine – tenor saxophone

Terumasa Hino – trumpet

Juni Booth – bass

Eric Gravatt – drums, percussion

This is an acoustic, spiritual jazz set from 1974 that features five great players on two side-long pieces!

The players are Masabumi Kikuchi-piano, Terumasa Hino-trumpet, Kohsuke Mine-tenor sax, Juni Booth-double bass and Eric Gravatt-drums. Great music and great sound as well. This is the last 70s album by Masabumi that was an all acoustic work.

Born 1939 in Tokyo, pianist Masabumi Kikuchi played with Lionel Hampton and Sonny Rollins while still a teenager, and made his recording debut in the early 1960s with Toshiko Akiyoshi and Charlie Mariano. In the 1970s he collaborated with Gil Evans and Elvin Jones and led his own groups, in both acoustic and electric modes, variously drawing influence from Miles Davis and Stockhausen, from Duke Ellington and Ligeti and Takemitsu. Kikuchi was amongst a small group of musicians with whom Miles Davis would regularly confer in his post-“Agharta” retirement period, and recorded a still-unissued session with Miles in 1978. Several of Kikuchi’s 1980s recordings were devoted to the synthesizer, but by the 1990s he was again emphasizing acoustic piano, founding the group Tethered Moon with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian, a unit whose recorded repertoire often examined a particular composer’s or interpreter’s works: the discography includes tributes to Kurt Weill, Edith Piaf, Jimi Hendrix and Puccini. But as Kikuchi recently explained to film-maker Thomas Haley (in the documentary “Out of Bounds”) those days are gone: “I don’t want to be part of someone else’s history … and I’m more free now, because I started believing in myself.” Accordingly, the first ECM album by the veteran Japanese improviser finds him headed into new territory. “Lately”, he says, “when I sit down at the piano I do not prepare what I will play nor do I think about how to play, and I believe I found the way of putting out something new, and I guess I could call it my own”...

A brilliant set from Japanese pianist Masabumi Kikuchi – two long, leaping, loping tracks that almost feel like some of McCoy Tyner's best work! Kikuchi plays acoustic piano, and the group's a quartet with Terumasu Hino on trumpet, Koshuke Mine on tenor, Eric Gravatt on drums, and Juni Booth playing some really wonderful bass. Booth's bass leads the tracks with a soulful quality that you don't always hear on Kikuchi's other work – really giving the record a strongly-rooted vibe, while the musicians are still free to really open up and explore. The album's tracks, "East Wind" and "Green Dance", are both excellent examples of the soulful freedoms allowed in the Japanese scene of the 70s – side-long numbers that are different both from contemporary performances on both the US and European scenes of the period.

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MAL WALDRON (Solo / Sextet) – Moods (2LP-1979)

Label: Enja Records – enja 3021  

(also; Inner City Records – IC 3018-2)

Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: W. Germany / Released: 1979

Style: Free Jazz, Post Bop

Recorded in May 1978, Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg.

Design [Cover] – Weber, Winckelmann

Photography – Ghert Chesi

Producer – Horst Weber, Matthias Winckelmann

Recorded By – Carlos Albrecht

A1 - Minoat . . . . . . . . . . 8:08

A2 - A Case Of Plus 4's . . . . . . . . . . 14:59

B  -  Sieg Haile . . . . . . . . . . 20:14

C1 - Anxiety . . . . . . . . . . 3:29

C2 - Thoughtful . . . . . . . . . . 6:07

C3 - Lonely . . . . . . . . . . 6:34

C4 - Happiness . . . . . . . . . . 3:04

D1 - Soul Eyes . . . . . . . . . . 6:49

D2 - I Thought About You . . . . . . . . . . 7:39

D3 - Duquility . . . . . . . . . . 8:31

Mal Waldron — piano

Terumasa Hino — cornet

Steve Lacy — soprano saxophone

Hermann Breuer — trombone

Cameron Brown — bass
Makaya Ntshoko — drums, percussion

This double-Lp features pianist Mal Waldron in two very different settings. On the first three songs (including the 20-minute sidelong "Sieg Haile"), he performs three of his compositions in a sextet with cornetist Terumasa Hino, soprano-saxophonist Steve Lacy, trombonist Hermann Breuer, bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Makaya Ntshoko. While that set has its share of fireworks, the remaining seven selections (six originals including his famous "Soul Eyes" plus the lone standard "I Thought About You") showcase Waldron as a sensitive solo pianist. This enjoyable and subtle music (which was also available at one time domestically on Inner City) gives one a well-rounded picture of Mal Waldron's talents in the late 1970's.

_ Review by Scott Yanow

Clocking in at over an hour, this generous presentation is nicely varied, alternating solo piano pieces with a fine sextet. In the latter, Waldron is joined by frequent collaborator Steve Lacy on soprano saxophone. In addition to the rhythm section, cornet player Terumasa Hino and trombonist Hermann Breuer round things out. Waldron relocated from the United States to Europe in the late '60s, and MOODS was recorded, with extraordinary warmth and clarity, in Germany in 1978. After the brief solitary piano of "Anxiety," "Sieg Haile" comes marching in with supple relentlessness. Waldron's compositions favor sharply defined chordal structures supporting simple, yet unexpected melodic lines. The album closer is the set's one cover, Jimmy Van Heusen's "I Thought About You." This performance embraces the same heartbreaking beauty favored by Billie Holiday, for whom Waldron was the final piano player in the '50s...

Beautiful music on two LP's. Enjoy!

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THE GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA – Little Wing (Live In Germany) LP-1978

Label: Circle Records – RK 101978/13

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

Style: Free Jazz, Fusion, Modal, Free Improvisation

Recorded live in Germany, October 19, 1978.

Cover Design By – Rudolf Kreis

Photography By [Back Cover] – Frank Spethmann

Photography By [Front Cover] – Alois Maul

Producer By – Rudolf Kreis

A1 - Dr. Jeckyl (Jackle) . . . . . . . . . . 16:12

        written by – Jackie McLean

        soloist: Gerry Niewood – alto saxophone; Terumasa Hino – trumpet;

                     Don Pate – electric bass; Lew Soloff – piccolo trumpet

A2 - The Meaning of the Blues . . . . . . . . . . . 9:04

        written by – Bobby Troup, Lee Worth

        soloist: George Adams – tenor saxophone

B  -  Little Wing . . . . . . . . . . . 25:09

        written by – Jimi Hendrix

        soloist: Pete Levin – synthesizer; Bob Stewart – tuba; Lew Soloff – trumpet;

                     Gerry Niewood – soprano saxophone; Rob Crowder – drums

Musicians:

Lew Soloff – trumpet, piccolo trumpet

Terumasa Hino – trumpet

Gerry Niewood – alto saxophone

George Adams – tenor saxophone, flute, percussion

Bob Stewart – tuba

Gil Evans – electric piano

Pete Levin – synthesizer

Don Pate – electric bass

Rob Crowder – drums, percussion 

Gil Evans plays some sweet electric piano – and leads a group with Terumasa Hino on trumpet, Lew Soloff on trumpet and piccolo trumpet, George Adams on tenor and flute, and Gerry Niewood on soprano sax and flute!...

Let's move a little in the '70s for this gem of a recording featuring Gil Evans and his superb group of soloists in an outstanding live set from 1978 consisting of reworkings in the unique Evans style. Every conceivable style is thrown in for good measure, the highlight of course being the superb rendition of Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing clocking a staggering 25 minutes. Absolutely essential listening.

Enjoy!

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TERUMASA HINO – Hogiuta (LP-1976)

Label: East Wind – EW-8041

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album; Country: Japan - Released: 1976

Style: Free Improvisation, Fusion

Studio recording, Japanese Original & East Wind, 1976

Promotional Director By – Yukio Morisaki

Photography By – Tadayuki Naitoh 

Producer By – Yasohachi "88" Itoh

Engineers By – Yoshiro Suzuki, David Baker

Executive Producer By – Toshinari Koinuma

Note: Japanese Original & East Wind JPN Spiritual Jazz !

A1 - Gyohkoh . . . 4:17

A2 - Hohjoh . . . 5:11

A3 - Yuhwa . . . 4:13

A4 - Hogiuta . . . 4:23

A5 - Yuhkyu . . . 1:40

B1 - The Good People . . . 15:08

B2 - Conclusion . . . 6:46

TERUMASA HINO – Trumpet, Fluegelhorn, Percussion, Composer, Voices

CECIL McBEE – Bass (Acoustic), Voice

MOTOHIKO HINO – Drums, Percussion, Voices

MTUME – Percussion, Conga, Voices

A fine trumpeter influenced by Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, Terumasa Hino has long been one of Japan's best jazz musicians. A professional since 1955, Hino has mostly become known to Americans since the 1970s due to his Enja recordings, although some of his albums were made available domestically by Catalyst, Inner City, and Blue Note. He moved to the U.S. in 1975, where he worked with Gil Evans, Jackie McLean, Dave Liebman, and Elvin Jones. Hino spent more of his time in Japan after the early '80s, and recorded in several different styles ranging from straight-ahead to fusion.

Very rare album and exceptionally beautiful recording.

Enjoy!

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TERUMASA HINO – Taro's Mood (1973) [Recorded live at the Domicile] - Re-2006

Label: Enja Records – ENJ 2104 2
Series: Enja · 24bit Master Edition –
Format: 2 × CD, Album, Remastered, Digipack; Country: Germany - Released: 2006
Style: Hard Bop, Free Improvisation
Recorded live at the jazzclub Domicile in Münich, June 29th 1973
Design – David Winckelmann
Photography By – Josef Werkmeister, Mathias Rissi
Producer – Matthias Winckelmann
Recorded By – Jürgen Koppers
Remastered At – Organic Music Studio, By – Thorsten Scheffner

Recorded in 1973. Remastered from analog source. 1 bonus track plus 1 bonus CD (tracks 5- 7)

Born in 1942 in Tokyo, Terumasa Hino made his professional debut in 1955. After the great success of his album "Hi-nology" (1969) he performed at the Berliner Jazztage in 1971 and at many other festivals before moving to New York in 1975. Today Hino is a lving legend and the most famous national jazz musician in Japan. Once an editor of Miles Davis transcriptions, his powerful playing in the 70s and his "large, brilliant tone" (Grove Dictionary) have often been compared to Miles Davis' 60s style. "Taro's Mood" is a fiery, high-energy live document of freestyle hardbop that also allows moments of surprising lyricism. Including four bonus tracks, this edition gives a much broader picture of Hino's music than the original LP vinyl could.

LP cover (1973)

Terumasa Hino

One of the first great non-Japanese recordings by trumpeter Terumasa Hino – a smoking little live set from Germany, done at a time when Hino was working at the height of his youthful powers! The mode here is stretched out and open – never too outside, but very exploratory – in the direction that Hino took quite strongly on his Japanese albums as the 70s approached, but performed here in a style that's even more organic than those records. The group is all Japanese – with Motohiko Hino on drums and Mikio Masuda on piano – and added conga at the bottom of the backings almost gives the record an early 70s Impulse Records sort of feel – nice and spiritual, and plenty soulful! Titles include "Alone Alone & Alone", "Taro's Mood", "Black Daffodil", and "Predawn". CD also features a bonus CD of unreleased material – the tracks "Stella By Starlight", "Cycle Circle", and "Lullaby".

Very beautiful recording.



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