31 December 2014

LEE WON HUI AND KIKUCHI KOJI – GROW (JOHNNY’S DISK, 1985)




A1. バグワン
A2. 英吉花吉
A3. コーリャン
A4. サーカス I
A5. サーカス II
A6. アイルランド (The Grenadier & The Lady)

B1. エピストロフィー (Epistrophy)
B2. チリもつもればヤマとなり
B3. レインボーン・スティーブ
B4. 砂漠の隊商 (Caravan)


Lee Won Hui, soprano and tenor sax
Kikuchi Koji, drums


Recorded on 1-3 June 1985 at Johnny's, Rikuzentakata, Iwate

Johnny’s Disk JD-13

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18 comments:

  1. Nick31 December 2014 at 05:17:00 CET

    Happy New Year


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  2. Ананасий Непитин31 December 2014 at 09:23:00 CET

    thanks a lot for this rip!
    never heard neither Mototeru Takagi (he is hidden behind the Korean-sounding alias Lee Won Hui; don't know why he has taken the family name substitute 'Lee' but his personal name Mototeru in Korean reading gives Won Hui).
    discogs gives decipherings to the track names for the 1st side, for Monk's and ellington's pieces framing the B side, while B2 and B3 remains not translated.
    i suppose, B3 means 'Rainborn Steve', but what does it mean - don't know.

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  3. DW31 December 2014 at 09:59:00 CET

    Happy New Year, Nick! And thanks for all the gifts you bring..

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  4. Ананасий Непитин31 December 2014 at 13:02:00 CET

    i've found the meaning of B2. it's apanese proverb, written in such a form of puzzle. reconstructed back to kanji form it gives '塵も積もれば山となる' with meaning similar to 'Many a little makes a mickle'.

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  5. QPjr2 January 2015 at 03:26:00 CET

    So,...combining Ананасий Непитин's work with what's on discogs and my own gumshoe, the current best guess on the track titles is:

    A1. Bhagwan
    A2. Eikichi Hanakichi or Eikichi bets on Kyrgyzstan
    A3. Kaoliang (sorghum, or sorghum liquor)
    A4. Circus I
    A5. Circus II
    A6. Irish Folk Song - but the tune is in fact The Grenadier And The Lady (English Traditional)
    B1. Epistrophy (T. Monk, K. Clarke)
    B2. Dust is a mountain, though it be also, it is.
    B3. Rainbow Ng Steve
    B4. Caravan (D. Ellington, I. Mills, J. Tizol).

    The "Ng" in B3 could mean "five" or "yellow" if not just a name, Vietnamese or other. If "five," Rainbow Five was an American War Plan against the Japanese, I believe. As for A2, if one translates in Japanese, there is the first transliteration. In Chinese, we get the latter. There is a famous Japanese rock musician named Eikichi Yazawa who, in '85 would've been at a unique height of fame and riches, known for blowing a huge load on a land deal. Takagi was known to have played for rock groups. Perhaps a connection...??? No idea why the alias for this album and no info on the Kikuchi [common name of the fungus Aspergillus Oryzae]!

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  6. Nick2 January 2015 at 05:45:00 CET

    Discogs is me and Babelfish, so I wouldn't bet on those titles. Steve could be Steve Lacy, as he toured Japan extensively and Takagi played some Lacy tunes.

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  7. QPjr2 January 2015 at 08:06:00 CET

    I totally understand and respect your decision to post with the titles you did! I had a fun round of it though! Thanks again!

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  8. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth2 January 2015 at 10:02:00 CET

    Thanks Nick!
    Do I get it right: Lee Won Hui is Mototeru Takagi?

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  9. Nick2 January 2015 at 18:23:00 CET

    That's right, Onxidlib.

    It was produced by Ken Terui, who owned and ran Jazz Cafe Johnny in Rikuzentakata and released several albums on his own label. He opened another jazz venue in Morioka called Kaiunbashi-no-Johnny. The original venue was destroyed in the tsunami of 2011, along with much of his home town and thousands of lives.

    There are some photos of the original cafe and Rizkuzentakata before the tsunami here.

    The Morioka venue is active and has some current CDs too, here.

    There is an article about Ken on the National Public Radio website.

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  10. bventure3 January 2015 at 01:21:00 CET

    Dear Ананасий Непитин, I think you mean "many a mickle makes a muckle', but much respect for your efforts. Don't we get some interesting discussions on here? Lovely.

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  11. SOTISE3 January 2015 at 02:26:00 CET

    thank you Takagi is simply one of the best period!!!... not a huge amount in print... his duo with Motoharu Yoshizawa on P.S.F is worth seeking out!

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  12. Nick17 January 2015 at 03:13:00 CET

    Track B2 is "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido", "the people united will never be defeated", by Sergio Ortega.

    B3 is Rainbow Steve - it's Lacy's "Bone"

    Thanks to Pierre for the info.

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  13. QPjr15 February 2015 at 04:40:00 CET

    Thanks to Pierre. I'm absolutely certain we would've gotten there through pure logic eventually, as so much dust and so many mickles uniting as mountains and muckles respectively are surely undefeatable... :-D

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  14. francisco santos29 January 2019 at 16:25:00 CET

    RE POST, PLEASE!...
    THX!...

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  15. Ernst Grgo Nebhuth29 January 2019 at 22:14:00 CET

    1fichier

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  16. francisco santos29 January 2019 at 22:24:00 CET

    HUGE THX ONCE MORE!....

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  17. Solomon31 January 2019 at 23:26:00 CET

    Thank you!

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  18. jeff6 April 2019 at 08:47:00 CEST

    Thank you. Interesting fact from Soejima's book. Mototeru Li. Korean heritage.

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