24 November 2010

YOSUKE YAMASHITA TRIO "CONCERT IN NEW JAZZ" (UNION, 1969)


This was the third LP of the Yamashita Trio, still with the original sax player Seiichi Nakamura. It was reissued as CD in 1991 with one piece more. Also some pieces were longer than on the LP.
But both are out of print.

Yosuke Yamashita is in Japan much more famous for his movie acting and his books which are bestsellers - as I was told by a japanese friend.
Sometimes he is marked as the japanese Cecil Taylor - but I think it is obvious that he has a voice all his own. However - C.T. was/is his "hero" - and there was a concert in which both played together. It seems it was filmed - something I would like to watch.

Here again one can notice, as Kinabalu remarked, the extraordinary energy and stamina of the group.


YOSUKE YAMASHITA TRIO "CONCERT IN NEW JAZZ"

Yosuke Yamashita,p
Seiichi Nakamura,ts,ss,cl
Takeo Moriyama,dr

1. Sate (Well) (Moriyama) 13:11
2. Mina's Second Theme (Yamashita) 06:44
3. Mokurin (Nakamura) 11:52
4. Gugan (Yamashita) 07:49

Recorded live at "Sankei Hall", Tokyo on 21st September, 1969

UNION UPS-20115
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16 comments:

  1. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth24 November 2010 at 01:08:00 CET

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  2. mike24 November 2010 at 06:48:00 CET

    Thanks for the great Yamashita posts!

    If you, or anyone out there, has his long sought after "April Fool: Coming Muhammad Ali", it would be much appreciated to see it here! Here's a description of this rarity:

    http://www.japanimprov.com/indies/superfuji/aprilfool.html

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  3. Anonymous24 November 2010 at 11:20:00 CET

    Note that if it's on the very astute japanimprov.com it means that it is for SALE. Japanimprov takes Paypal and has an excellent and communicative service. "April Fool" is in print through SuperFujiDisk, an imprint of DiskUnion.

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  4. 100924 November 2010 at 21:24:00 CET

    Thanks also for this! I've been able to pick up a few YY albums on CD in the US, albeit at rather high import prices ($25 or more). It would be nice to see some of this Japanese music made available like FMP is doing through the Destination: Out online store (in FLAC and mp3 formats).

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  5. Anonymous25 November 2010 at 11:39:00 CET

    Sure! Difficult anyway. Some of these records are held by big majors in Japan - Toshiba (EMI), RCA/Victor, Columbia... sadly not their policy, in Japan as well as anywhere else in this universe... Hopefully there are fantastic and dedicated labels in Japan doing the job on smaller labels - DoubMusic and Jinya reissuing Offbeat, etc... Praise to them.

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  6. mike9 May 2011 at 04:07:00 CEST

    I thought I'd update us all... Here is the album I requested above!!

    http://barabarasounds.blogspot.com/2011/04/yamashita-yosuke-trio-april-fool-coming.html

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  7. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth23 March 2012 at 01:41:00 CET

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  8. Anonymous21 April 2014 at 20:18:00 CEST

    Is it possible to get a re-up of this album (the oron doesn't link to anything and the RS comes up as exceeding the daily limit each time)
    Thanks
    Alfie

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  9. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth21 April 2014 at 20:47:00 CEST

    ...re-up will be done in the upcoming days.

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  10. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth22 April 2014 at 00:12:00 CEST

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  11. Anonymous26 April 2014 at 12:56:00 CEST

    Huge thank-yous for this one.
    I've been hunting for this for a while since coming across a piece of footage of the trio in a Japanese film from way back then.
    Thanks
    Alfie

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  12. Anonymous25 November 2014 at 05:31:00 CET

    Thank you thank you onxidlib & inconstant sol. Wonderful

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  13. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth4 March 2019 at 12:04:00 CET

    1fichier

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  14. Solomon5 March 2019 at 00:56:00 CET

    Thank you!

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  15. francisco santos5 March 2019 at 15:17:00 CET

    BIG THX!...

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  16. Guitarradeplastico,scraping oddities16 May 2023 at 11:58:00 CEST

    Many thanks

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