Keeping Count, by Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union

Keeping Count

by Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union

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🗻 SOUND FUJI / KING Jazz RE:Generation album! 🎷

Selected by Yusuke Ogawa (Universounds). High quality download available for the first time!

- Artist: Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union
- Title: Keeping Count
- Label: Paddle Wheel / King Records
- Original release year: 1986
- Original catalog number: K28P 6444

Japan’s leading big band Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union perform numbers associated with Count Basie.

Recorded at King Studio, Tokyo, August 27, 28, 29, and September 6, 1986.

Supervised by Tatsuya Takahashi
Arranged by Dave Matthews
Executive producer: Masami Matsuoka
Producers: Shigeyuki Kawashima, Tatsuya Nezaki
Recorded by Hatsuro Takanami
Assistant Engineer: Seiji Kaneko

Personnel:

YOSHIFUMI TADA: trumpet
TSUNEO TAKEDA: trumpet
KOHICHI SUZUKI: trumpet
HIDEO KAMIMURA: trumpet
HIDEO IGUCHI: trombone
KENICHI TSUNODA: trombone
SATORU FUKADA: trombone
MICHIHARU YAMAZAKI: bass trombone
KEUI HORE: alto sax, flute
JUN KONDO: alto sax, flute
TATSUYA TAKAHASHI: tenor sax, flute
NORIO MORIGUCHI: tenor sax, flute
YASUO NIWA: baritone sax, flute
MASAHIRO KANAYAMA. piano
ATSUO WADA: bass
HIDETOSHI KAWANO: guitar
YOSHINOBU INAGAKI: drums

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SOUND FUJI explores King Records' legendary catalog and unearths exceptional, rare and unknown musical gems from Japan. King Records has been releasing music since 1931. Follow 180g-soundfuji.bandcamp.com for weekly updates and amazing music discoveries, and dig into the archives of one of the most prestigious labels in Japan!

KING Jazz RE:Generation is a series of digital compilations and albums exploring King Records' prestigious jazz catalog, carefully selected by Japanese jazz expert Yusuke Ogawa.

Yusuke Ogawa has been running the Universounds store in Tokyo since 2001, specializing in jazz and second-hand, rare, and collector records. He is also a reissue supervisor, label manager, DJ, and music writer. Known for his vast musical knowledge, eye for detail, and archival skills, Ogawa has worked on more than 250 reissues and compilations – including the highly praised Deep Jazz Reality and Project Re:Vinyl series. He is the co-author of the Wa-Jazz Disc Guide and the Independent Black Jazz of America books.

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SOUND FUJI explores King Records' legendary catalog and unearths exceptional, rare and unknown musical gems from Japan. King Records has been releasing music since 1931. Dig into the archives of one of the most prestigious labels in Japan!

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