6 November 2012

MASAHIKO TOGASHI "THREE MASTERS" (NEXT WAVE, 1980)





Out of the vaults of Nick - Enjoy.......



MASAHIKO TOGASHI  "THREE MASTERS"


Hozan Yamamoto, shakuhachi
Masahiko Sato, piano, electric piano
Masahiko Togashi, drums, percussion

On B3 only:
Kazutoki Umezu, bass clarinet
Yoriyuki Harada, piano
Katsuo Kuninaka, bass
Shota Koyama, drums

A1. Tohne (Distant sounds) 05:00
A2. Dry                    06:28
A3. White Autumn           06:43

B1. Minamoto               03:59
B2. Sounds                 10:41
B3. Midare                 06:18

Recorded live at Donau Hall, Donaueschingen, 18 October 1980.

NEXT WAVE/Nippon Phonogram 25PJ-1006.
Album series title : Donaueschinger Musiktage/1980, Jazz of Japan, vol.1.

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24 comments:

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  2. Bozo doffs the clown cap in sincere thanks and admiration to and for the Nick and others responsible for all the Japanese wonders that have been exposed to the Sol-World! Many,many thanks!

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  3. thanks a lot.
    what a gemstone!
    regards,
    a

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  4. Yamamoto presence makes it particularly appealing to me, many thanks Nick and onxidlib

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  5. vol.1 leaves me in sweet waiting for n.2, at least. Thank you!

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  6. Volume 2 is "Danke" with Kazutoki Umezu on reeds etc and Yoriyuki Harada on piano. It's good too, but you can still get it on CD from

    http://www.cdjapan.co.jp

    whereas I've never seen Volume 1 on cd.

    Nick

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  7. I used to own an absolutely beautiful Hozan Yamamoto LP with Masabumi Kikuchi and Gary Peacock (his name misspelled on the cover), the name of which I can't recall. DJ Krush sampled it on his Meiso album. Any one know this album?

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  8. Newk you must be thinking of 'the Silver world'

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  9. thank you very much for putting that up. Recordings with Hozan Yamamoto from the 1970s and 1980s are really hard to find nowadays. Anyway, recently I discovered a video of him with Yosuke Yamashita recorded at the Klaviersommer in Munich 1985. It can be watched, streamed, etc. here

    Johann

    http://www.classicaltv.com/v1242/yosuke-yamashita-and-hozan-yamamoto

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  10. Sotise: Yes, indeed! I bought that record from two men who were selling everything in their apartment. They had a very eclectic record collection (disco,prog,comedy) including many with sleeves entirely in Japanese that I just gambled on. One of the other records I pulled was an album of bossa nova played on a shakuhachi.

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  11. please can you reupload the 3 masters album thank for sharing all these fantastic artists of japan
    jazzcatfly

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  12. Hi onxidlib, could you re-up this please, thanks

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  14. The link is broken. Could you fix it?

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  15. Thank you for taking time to repost.

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