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!