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.
If you find it, buy this album!