YOSUKE YAMASHITA TRIO with Brass 12 "GUGAN" (EMI, 1971)

YOSUKE YAMASHITA TRIO with Brass 12 "GUGAN"
(Introducing Takeo Moriyama)


Seiichi Nakamura, tenor & soprano saxophone
Yosuke Yamashita, piano
Takeo Moriyama, drums
Hisahide Katoh, tenor saxophone
Mabumi Yamaguchi, alto saxophone
Kunio Fukisaki, Susumi Kazuhara, Toru Ogoshi, Kenji Yoshida, trumpet
Masao Suzuki, baritone horn
Naoki Takahashi, Hisashi Nishimura, Hisashi Imai, trombone
Kyosuke Aikawa, tuba

1. Hachi (T.Moriyama) 11:10
2. Ballad for Y.Y. (T.Moriyama) 09:04
3. Take One (T.Moriyama) 10:24
4. Gugan (Y.Yamashita) 07:18

Recorded on September 25, 1971 at Toshiba EMI Studio.

EMI ETJ-9091 (first release)
EXPRESS FAR EAST Jazz Series ETJ-60005 (this version)

(lp rip)

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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