Label: Better Days – YF-7026-N
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Japan / Released: 1981
Style: Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Experimental, Avant-garde Jazz
Recorded At – Nippon Columbia Studio 1981
Illustration – Izumi Takao
Cover – Tztom Toda
Design – Hitoshi Nagasawa
Photography By – Sho Kikuchi
Directed By – Tomohiro Saito
Engineer, Mixed By – Kazuhiro Tokieda
Mixed By – Kazuhiro Tokieda
Producer – Pochi Kashiwabara
A1 - What Time Is It?....................................................................... 8:21
A2 - 4 O'Clock................................................................................ 11:12
B1 - E? E!! E? .................................................................................. 9:51
B2 - Trapper .................................................................................... 8:50
All songs composed and arranged by – Akira Sakata
Musicians:
Akira Sakata – alto saxophone, alto clarinet
Kasutoki Umezu – alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Yoriyuki Harada – bass clarinet
Tomoki Takahashi – tenor saxophone
Seiichi Nakamura – tenor saxophone, clarinet
Ichiko Hashimoto – fortepiano
Shuichi Chino – fortepiano, organ
Shinji Yasuda – trumpet
Haruki Satoh – trombone
Shigeharu Mukai – trombone, bass trombone
Hiroshi Yoshino – bass
Tamio Kawabata – electric bass
Nobuo Fujii, Tony Koba – drums, percussion
Kiyohiko Semba – percussion
Incredible work, Akira Sakata Orchestra (information on the web is very scarce) on this album is create a monstrous specimen of free-jazz, intense improvisations of saxophone and piano, incisive bass, playful rhythm section, best wild jazz with fast movements and rapid pace, ever is changing, collapse, again manic lifting, This is pure hell here.
I think that this album should be in every collection of free-jazz improvisations.
Enjoy!
If you find it, buy this album!