Le Très Jazz Club · in the Kissa Kissa racks
New Jazz In Japan
| Recorded | c. 1968 |
|---|---|
| Label | Le Très Jazz Club |
| Released | 1968 |
| Personnel | 15 credited players |
| Discogs | master 830694 |
The record
A late-'60s snapshot of Japan's most disciplined big band, Sharps & Flats stacking five brass and reed voices deep under Nobuo Hara's own tenor lead. Tight section work and crisp charts show how thoroughly Japanese jazz had absorbed the Kenton-and-Basie big-band lineage by decade's end.
Session personnel
- Hajime Maekawa — alto saxophone
- Koji Suzuki — alto saxophone
- Nobuyuki Morikawa — baritone saxophone
- Hiroshi Takeuchi — bass
- Yoshio Nakamura — drums
- Toshihiko Ogawa — piano
- Kazunori Taniguchi — tenor saxophone
- Nobuo Hara — tenor saxophone
- Haruo Ochi — trombone
- Masahiro Nakajima — trombone
- Tadao Taniyama — trombone
- Hiroshi Sanami — trumpet
- Kunitoshi Shinohara — trumpet
- Shuzo Morikawa — trumpet
- Teruyuki Fukushima — trumpet
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
| 1968 | Columbia · YS-10022-J — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file · gatefold |
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| 1968 | Denon · YS-10022-J — Vinyl, LP, Album · gatefold |
| 1971 | Columbia · QJ-9005-J — Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Quadraphonic, Gatefold · gatefold |
| 2009 | Columbia · COCB-53833 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo |
| 2024 | Le Très Jazz Club — STEREO |