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Cat

Hiroshi Suzuki

Recorded	Oct 1975
Label	Nipponophone
Released	1975
Personnel	5 credited players
Discogs	master 751454

The record

A slab of mid-70s Japanese jazz-funk built around Suzuki's fat, vocal trombone tone, cut with a crew of Tokyo session heavyweights fluent in both hard bop and groove. Deep, horn-led fusion that's become a crate-digger's holy grail for its title track alone.

Session personnel

Kunimitsu Inaba — bass
Akira Ishikawa — drums
Hiromasa Suzuki — keyboards, electric piano
Takeru Muraoka — saxophone
Hiroshi Suzuki — trombone

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 15 pressings on file.

1976	Columbia · SP-7006 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1976	Denon · SP-7006 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1976	Columbia · SP-7006 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo
2007	Columbia Music Entertainment · COCB-53633 — CD, Album, Reissue, Paper Sleeve
2014	Columbia · COCB-54118 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2014	Columbia — File, MP3, Album, Reissue, VBR
2015	Columbia · HMJY-105 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
2019	Klimt Records · MJJ404 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Unofficial Release, Swamp Green, 180 Gram
2021	We Release Jazz · WRJ010CD — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo
2021	We Release Jazz · WRJ010LTD — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 180g
2021	We Release Jazz · WRJ010LTD — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Crystal Clear, 180 gr
2021	We Release Jazz — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Test Pressing
2021	We Release Jazz · WRJ010LTD — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Gold
2023	We Release Jazz · WRJ010LTD — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Blue Transparent