Sunday, December 31, 2017
TAKEO MORIYAMA QUARTET – Flush Up LP 1977 Union Records Re 1982
TAKEO MORIYAMA QUARTET – Flush Up LP 1977 Union Records Re 1982
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!
