★Trio Records
African Piano (LP)
1972 Japanese re-issue on Trio/Japo of the 1970 album. With insert.
An Evening With Ornette Coleman 2 (LP)
1979 Japanese re-issue on Freedom/Trio's "Giants Of Jazz 1500" series of the 1972 live album. With insert and obi.
An Evening With Ornette Coleman 2 (LP)
1979 Japanese re-issue on Freedom/Trio's "Giants Of Jazz 1500" series of the 1972 live album. With insert.
Who's Crazy? 1 (LP)
Original Japanese edition on Trio of the 1979 album with the first part of the soundtrack to the 1966 film. With insert and obi.
Nefertiti (LP)
1975 re-issue with different cover on Trio/Freedom's "Freedom Discover The '60's Series" of the 1966 album featuring Jimmy Lyons. With insert and obi.
Great Paris Concert 1 (LP)
Original Japanese edition of the second volume of the 1977 re-issue on Trio/Freedom as two separate LP's of the 1973 Japan-only double album titled Student Studies, with recordings from 1966 featuring Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille. With insert.
Great Paris Concert 2 (LP)
Original Japanese edition of the second volume of the 1977 re-issue on Trio/Freedom as two separate LP's of the 1973 Japan-only double album titled Student Studies, with recordings from 1966 featuring Jimmy Lyons, Alan Silva and Andrew Cyrille. With insert.
Solo (LP)
Original edition of the 1973 Japan-only album on Trio Records' "Trio Jazz Mania" series. With insert.
Solo (LP)
1978 re-issue of the 1973 Japan-only album on Trio Records. With insert and obi.
Ghosts (LP)
1975 Japanese re-issue on Trio/Freedom's "Freedom Discover The '60's Series" with different cover of the 1965 album featuring Gary Peacock, Don Cherry and Sunny Murray. With insert.
Montreux One (LP)
1978 original Japanese edition on Freedom/Trio of the 1976 album with a live recording from 1975 featuring Dave Burrell. With insert.
Town Hall 1972
Tip! *2024 stock* If Anthony Braxton were to be judged on the basis of his oeuvre alone, he would stand completely apart from any modern composer, bar none. He has an enormous body of work, written for every conceivable permutation and combination of ensemble, from two to over a hundred and also for practically all the modern instruments known to musicians. As a reeds and winds player, he has a staggering technique, but not only this: he dives deep into the soul to extract the most subtle emotio…
Solo
*2024 stock* Cecil Taylor's masterwork is captured on this Japanese CD (reissue of the eponymous album released on LP in 1973) that dates back to his zenith of performance, when he was pushing the envelope of improvisational music to unprecedented heights of intensity and precision. While Taylor's work in the 1960s was impressive, his performance in the 1970s, and this particular track in particular, is absolutely breathtaking. With a style that may appear chaotic upon initial listen, Cecil's f…
Live: First Flight
Delight in Hiroshi Fukumura's live brilliance, where his unusual approach to the instrument shines. This quartet, featuring Hiroshi Tamura on piano, Tsutomu Okada on bass, and Shinji Mori on drums, delivers open, flowing tracks reminiscent of Japanese piano trios. Fukumura's solos, crafted like trumpet lines, boast a gritty yet lyrical power, this live session captures the essence of Fukumura's unique artistry and musical strides.
Four Wings
The members of the Hidehiko Matsumoto Quartet, a famous combo from the 1960s, reunited for one night only. Their performance was on a grand scale, as if they were flapping their wings on four different wings, including the groovy "Speak Low" and the swinging "Four Wings".