1 January 2015

MOTOTERU TAKAGI - MAKAYA TEMPLE, 1998





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Mototeru Takagi, tenor saxophone


Recorded live in 1998 at Makaya Temple, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka

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13 comments:

  1. Nick, Thanks for the great start of what may well be a fantastic Solar year of enlightening discoveries! Your amazing ability to keep pulling
    Japanese musical rabbits out
    of your hat is reaching, no, already has reached mythical and mystical porportions...wow.

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  2. grazie!
    i only ever saw him on milford's "meditations among us"

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  3. Hi BUA

    You need to find the others here!

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  4. Thank you, I definitely will! And when you say other(s), you're not kidding! Took me a minute to figure out the alias on "GROW."
    Hey, have you ever come across this book?

    Soejima Teruto. Nihon furii jazu shi (日本フリージャズ史, The History of Japanese Free Jazz). Tokyo: Seidosha, 2002

    He just passed away in July.

    http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/31987/japanese-free-jazz-critic-teruto-soejima-dies-age-83

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  5. Hi Bua

    Unfortunately I can't read Japanese.

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  6. darn it for language barriers...
    if only there was some kind of transcendental, maybe even non-verbal, perhaps even un-notate-able language... ;-DDD

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  7. A beautiful meditation on Lacy

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  8. is it possible to repost please? Thanks!

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