SATO - CHRISTMANN - SCHÖNENBERG "TOKYO, 1979"

 

Günter Christmann, trombone, double bass
Masahiko Sato, piano
Detlef Schönenberg, drums


1. unknown title 36:32

Recorded in April 1, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan
(radio broadcast, R--)

[thanks to jazzrita] 

MASAHIKO SATOH - 佐藤允彦 — NYOZEGAMON (OHRAI RECORDS, 2007)

 

1.Karyou-binga
2.Enbudai
3.Nyudou
4.Ennen-jyu
5.Ekou
6.Kalpa
7.Tou-higan

Masahiko Sato, piano, soundscapes

Ohrai Records, JMCK-1030

Recorded August 11, 2007; Koko Plaza Studio, Osaka

CD Rip

MASAHIKO SATOH "KWAN-JI-ZAI - 観自在 - SOLO PIANO VOL.1 (DENON, 1976)

This post or rather reup is due to Jeff (again my thanks go to him!).
The original rips were by Sotise.

This is volume 1 of three solo LPs Satoh has recorded in 1976.
All three albums never got a reissue in any format.


Masahiko Satoh, piano
 
A1. Hajime = 一     4:04
A2. Michi = 道     6:17
A3. Kwan-Ji-Zai = 観自在     11:47
B1. Jizoh-Bosatsu = 地蔵菩薩     4:05
B2. Zanmai = 三昧     10:17
B3. Mujin = 無人     2:45

 Recorded at Tohoh Seimei Hall on 13, 14 April 1976.

DENON YX-7501-ND
(vinyl rip)



Vol.2 
Vol.3

Masahiko Satoh - Pavane Lachrymae - Denon 1978

Several years ago I interviewed Masahiko Satoh, probably for the french magazine "impro jazz". One of my first questions was about the incredible diversity of styles he has been playing since the beginning of his career. He then replied, "I have no particular style, when I started to play to win money, the first band I played with, was a jazz band, if it had been a tango band I will become a tango pianist. Reality or casualness of the answer?

1 From The Highest

2 No nights are dark enough

3 And tears, and sights, and groams

4 My weary days

5 My fortune is thrown

6 And fear, and grief, and pain

7 Let me live for lorn

Masahiko Satoh: piano (steinway), Synthesizer (Korg PS-3100 Polyphonic, EMS Synthi AKS), Electric Piano (Fender), Harpsichord.

Recorded April 19 & 20, 1978

Lp Denon YX-7536-ND

This rip comes from a cd that contains also another lp: magnolia no ki not included in this post because it have been reissued as a single cd some years ago and still available.

MIHO KEI & JAZZ ELEVEN "KOKEZARU KUMIKYOKU" (MCA, 1971)

Here's what mvns about this LP: "Arranged and composed by Keitaro Miho (he didn't perform in this album), this is a spiritual adventure to a world where traditional Japanese music clashes and melts with contemporary jazz improvisations. The result is a monster of an album, with soaring vocals, searing saxophone and shakuhachi solos, mad electric piano action, uplifting koto strummings, as well as grooves so hard it feels you got punched in the gut."
  [There is a CD version (out-of-print) which is a disaster, sound quality-wise - crude needle-drop. There's also a vinyl reissue but it's out-of-print as well]




Takeru Muraoka, soprano & tenor saxophone, indian flute
Takehisa Suzuki, trumpet
Minoru Muraoka, shakuhachi
Suma No Arashi (Hideakira Sakurai, Kazuo Kojima, Nozomu Nakatani), koto
Ryo Kawasaki, electric guitar
Masahiko Satoh, electric piano, harpsichord
Yasuo Arakawa, electric bass
Kikutada Katada, tsuzumi (japanese hour-glass shaped drum)
Akira Ishikawa, drums
Takeshi Inomata, drums


A1. Mizaru   6:33
A2. Kikazaru 4:38
A3. Iwazaru  6:59
B1. Kine     7:16
B2. Nomen    7:39


MCA Records JMC-5026 (promo LP, 1971)

(vinyl rip)

PARK JE CHUN "MOL-E MORI II" (SANG-JOONG-HA MUSIC, 1996-99)

Park Je Chun, drums, percussion
Masahiko Satoh, piano (1)
Kang Tae Hwan, alto saxophone (2, 4)
Wadada Leo Smith, trumpet, bamboo flute (3)
Gustavo Aguilar, percussion (4)
Richard Maurer Jr., percussion (4)


1. Song I     11:56
2. Song II     12:31
3. Song III     7:19
4. Song IV     10:34
5. Song V     9:21


Recorded live at Yeongang Hall, March 10, 1999 (1) and June 30, 1998 (5);
at Duo Mull Workshop Hall, February 14, 1998 (2);
at Jung Dong Art Hall, May 4, 1997 (3); and at Live I Hall, March 21, 1996 (4)


Sang-Joong-Ha Music SJHCD-001 (South Korea, 2001)

Get the scans here.

VARIOUS "AFRICA KARA AFRICA / GENBAKU SHOUKEI = アフリカからアフリカへ / 原爆小景" (HEm, 1974)

Here is some info by our donator mvns about this LP: "...It's part 10 of 11 educational LPs meant to accompany an elementary school-level music textbook. Side A contains a sidelong track composed by Masahiko Satoh that depicts a journey through the history of jazz. It features a lot of J-jazz heavyweights. Side B is an unsettling choral work by the renowned Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus about the nuclear bomb."


 Side A:

Akira Miyazawa (saxophone)

Norio Maeda (piano)

Masanaga Harada (bass)

Jimmy Takeuchi (drums)

Kenichi Sonoda and Dixie Kings

George Otsuka Quintet

Masahiko Satoh's Garandoh [Hozumi Tanaka, Keiki Midorikawa, Masahiko Satoh]

Side B: 

Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus

A.  ジャズの歴史

B1. 水ヲ下サイ

B2. 日ノ暮レチカク

B3. 夜

HEm ‎– H-201 (Japan, 1974)

[vinyl rip]

MASAOMI KONDO - 植物誌 ひとりぼっちの部屋 (CANYON, 1971)

Here we have another high quality rip by mvns - my thanks goes to him.


Kondo Masaomi is a well know Japanese actor who made this one-off LP in 1971. He raps away on 6 tracks about various plant species such as the Mandragora, breathing out an endangered atmosphere that borders at times on sheer anarchy and agitation.



Takeru Muraoka, soprano saxophone
Hiroshi Suzuki, trombone
Kiyoshi Sugimoto, guitar
Masahiko Satoh, piano, electric piano, music
Masaoki Terakawa, electric bass
Akira Ishikawa, drums
Masaomi Kondo, voice
Michio Yamagami, lyrics

A1. ツタ             9:55 A2. オリーブ     9:36 A3. キャベツ     2:03 B1. サボテン     8:26 B2. マンドラゴラ     7:03 B3. バイバブ     4:45
Transliterations (titles): A1. Ivy A2. Olive A3. Cabbage B1. Cactus B2. Mandragora B3. Baobab
Canyon CAL-3002 (vinyl rip)

MASAHIKO SATO & NEW HERD ORCHESTRA "CANTO OF LIBRA" (COLUMBIA, 1970)

I have posted the companion to this recording more than four years ago.
New links over there...and now to:



Masahiko Sato, piano, celesta

Toshiyuki Miyama, conductor

NEW HERD ORCHESTRA
Koji Hatori, Bunji Murata, Kenichi Sano, Kunio Fujisaki, trumpet
Teruhiko Kataoka, Masamichi Uetaka, Seiichi Tokura, Takeshi Aoki, trombone
Hiroshi Takami, Shinji Nakayama, alto saxophone
Kosuke Ichihara, Shoji Maeda, tenor saxophone
Shunzo Sunahara, baritone saxophone
Yoshinobu Imashiro, piano
Kozaburo Yamaki, guitar
Masao Kurisada, bass
Teiichi Tabata, drums

1. Canto I    11:21
2. Canto II   05:48
3. Canto III  08:02
4. Canto IV   05:36
5. Canto V    05:29

Music composed and arranged by Masahiko Sato.

Recorded in Tokyo on July 15 & 18, 1970.

COLUMBIA NB-7001 (LP)
(COCB-53493 CD)

HELEN MERRILL with the GARY PEACOCK TRIO "S'POSIN" (VICTOR/STORYVILLE, 1971)

The great Helen Merrill's most challenging, outer worldly record ever, featuring loose, free  highly textured arrangements by Masahiko Sato and Peacock, recorded just 4 months before the epochal "Samadhi' by the trio...
This also features a touching version of Ellington's 'In a sentimental mood' which is so obviously Gary Peacock's very moving tribute to Jimmy Blanton... beautiful oh so beautiful, painfully so..

Only reissued on Cd in Japan and out of print to the best of my knowledge ..
This rip is taken from the early 70's Storyville LP ..

Helen Merrill is as far as i know still recording...and well worth supporting !
she has a website here
ENJOY!!!!

LINK

TOSHIYUKI MIYAMA & THE NEW HERD ‎– NAYUTAGENJO (COLUMBIA, 1976)

A1. 日輪
A2. 塵界

B1. 諦
B2. 修
B3. 兜率天


Kenichi Tada, alto saxophone
Koji Suzuki, alto saxophone
Shozo Nakagawa, alto saxophone, flute
Kenichi Tada, baritone saxophone
Yasushi Fukushima, bass
Isao Yomoda, drums
Kozaburo Yamaki, guitar
Toshiyuki Miyama, leader
Sabu Toyozumi, percussion
Kiyoshi Takano, piano
Masahiko Sato, piano
Mamoru Mori, tenor saxophone
Shigeto Honda, tenor saxophone
Masamichi Uetaka, trombone
Osamu Shiomura, trombone
Teruhiko Kataoka, trombone
Teruo Fukushima, trombone
Kazumi Takeda, trumpet
Koji Yamaguchi, trumpet
Yoshikazu Kishi, trumpet

Recorded on 22 and 26-28 June 1976.

Columbia ‎– SQ-7003

Vinyl Rip

MASAHIKO SATOH AND THE SOUNDBREAKERS "AMALGAMATION (KOKOTSU NO SHOWA GENROKU)" (LIBERTY, 1971)

By request....Enjoy!

It is not entirely clear wether the line-up given below is complete - did my best to confirm it. However the music itself might let you forget such minor quibbles.



MASAHIKO SATOH AND THE SOUNDBREAKERS  "AMALGAMATION (KOKOTSU NO SHOWA GENROKU)"

Amalgamation Part 1 (15:50)
Masahiko Satoh, keyboards, organ, percussion
D.D. Dickson, trombone
Jochen Staudt, bass trombone
Jackie Heimann, trumpet
Peter Davis, trumpet
Shungo sawada, acoustic guitar
Kimio Mizutani, electric guitar
Hiro Yanakida, hammond organ
Masaoki Terakawa, electric bass
Louis Haynes, drums
Wehnne Strings Consort
Daniel Lehmann, conductor (strings)

Amalgamation Part 2 (21:18)
Mototeru Takagi, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
Masahiko Satoh, hammond organ, percussion
Yoshisaburo Toyozumi, drums, percussion
Hideaki Sakurai, percussion, voice
Kayoko Ishu, voice (scat)



Recorded:
Part 1 recorded August 17, 1971 - 13:00~19:00 at Toshiba Records 1st studio.
Part 2 recorded August 22, 1971 - 13:00~19:00 at Toshiba Records 1st studio.


Liberty/Toshiba LTP9018  (this version from Phoenix Records ASHCD3040)

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Masahiko Satoh- Solo Piano Vol3, Multi Spheroid 1976

Masahiko Satoh's third Solo Lp ,from the Jan 76 sequence
Dense,  Torrential,exhilarating, with added colour and a transformative layer via EMS synthesiser!
still out of print and as far as i know, never reissued.
Enjoy!!


Multi-Spheroid
SATOH Masahiko
Denon Jazz/Nippon Columbia YX-7556-ND (LP)
January 14, 1976;
Live at Nichi-Futsu Kaikan, Tokyo
SATOH Masahiko (p, syn, ring modulater, comp, producer)

Satoh's Discography
Satohs Label

ps-Zippy Share Links added 10-2-

KOHSUKE ICHIHARA ALL STARS / MASAHIKO SATOH & GARAN-DOH - デマ (DEMA)

Here is a different aspect of Masahiko Sato to the recent posts. He contributed to a phenomenal number of albums in the early 1970s, as a musical director and playing acoustic or electric keyboards.


1. Prologue     1:19    

2. Information1 - Information21     16:46    

3. Information22 - Information49     15:10    

4. Epilogue     2:36    


Group 1

Akira Ishikawa, drums
Hideo Ichikawa, electric piano
Kimio Mizutani,  electric guitar
Kohsuke Ichihara, flutes, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophone
Masaoki Terakawa, electric bass
Takao Naoi, electric guitar

Group 2

Hozumi Tanaka, drums, percussion
Keiki Midorikawa, double bass
Masahiko Sato, piano, synthesizer

First release: CBS Sony – SOLL-28, 1973

Re-released: Super Fuji Discs – FJSP-02, 2007

Attila Zoller-Masahiko Satoh, A Path through Haze 1971-MPS

In a completely different vein , heres a beautiful MPS session from 1971, featuring legendary post bop guitarist Atilla Zoller, Harmonically Challenging and at times tonally ambiguous ,though relatively straight ahead with lots of delightful free wheeling interplay,by Satoh and Zoller.

All in all rather reminiscent of  the material performed by a sensational mid sixties band led by pianist Don Friedman, that recorded a couple of albums for Prestige
the best of which ,"Metamorphoses" happens to be among my favorite records...(available on CD and well worth checking out)

To my knowledge this hasn't been issued on CD outside of Japan , unaccountably given its superb quality!... it has been around in mp3's which perhaps can still be found around the blogosphere.

this is ripped from a very clean copy , made by Teichiku in the early 70's

A Path Through Haze Mps (UL-X-38-P)1971
Attila Zoller-G
Masahiko Satoh-pno
Yasuo Arakawa-DB
Masahiko Ozu-dr
recorded at Teldec Studio Berlin, 7th Nov 1971

enjoy!! , and Explore Zoller's (and Satohs)available discography scant as it is, you wont be disappointed ... a great one of Zoller's on MPS that is available , is Zo Ko So,1965, with Martial Solal, and Hans Koller
Best S

PS, does anyone have the rarer MPS Zoller Satoh Duo... ???

Masahiko Satoh-'Yun' Solo Piano Vol2-1976

Here's another, superb solo piano lp, I know absolutely nothing about the circumstances surrounding this recording ,what i do know is that ive always considered Masahiko Satoh to be one of the
most distinctive , authentic Japanese Jazz pianists , a superb improviser whatever the Context.

This was the second in an early series of solo recordings from the 70's...

its Dense , and certainly to these ears Satoh seems to submit to and absorb the influence of Cecil Taylor(something i havent heard before on albums under his name) .. that said there is also THAT distinctive spaciousness which seems inherent to most Japanese free jazz of its day.

Pretty Sure though not absolutely Certain that this is not currently available , i welcome correction on that score..
Masahiko Satoh- Solo Piano#2, Yun
A-Yun part 1
B-Yun part 2
recorded at Columbia studios Tokyo-
6-3-1976
this issue ,Denon YX7502-ND



Note- this is my first Zippy- share upload ,on Paper their declarations of decent speeds and , no cost either to uploaders or Downloaders,suites me fine...
i would appreciate any feedback ,by those downloading this file
click on the Images forwhat scant information there is in english!!

Enjoy and Best wishes for the New year to all!!

Satoh's website
Satoh's Discography
Satoh CDs for Sale
(Btw, Cd's Japan is a ,Decent place to buy, lots of discounted stock , and a fair but not great selection of  Jazz)

Masahiko Togashi-Gary Peacock-Masahiko Satoh-Wave, 1986

A small contribution to the Celebration of Masahiko Togashi's great oeuvre
A warm reunion, Gary Peacock , hooking up again with Old Friends, Togashi &Satoh, having spent the early 70's in Japan as a student of George Ohsawa, founder of the the Macrobiotic Diet.
Peacock recorded prolifically during that sojourn including several albums with  Togashi notably the profoundly beautiful Voices (Nippon Columbia 1971) and  with Satoh(Samahdi, Far East 1971)

This Appears to be out of print at source, a thorough internet check reveals that there are but a few copies available through Amazon, at well over the Hundred Dollar mark, with only one purporting to be 'New' at 40 or so dollars , hard to know for certain ,I am open to correction on the above point..
beautiful stuff Enjoy!!

PS .. the availability of Peacock's records is Commensurate with his stature, a first choice recommendation for anyone wanting to explore his records under his own name would be 'Voice from the past' an atmospheric session Featuring Stanko and Garbarek  from 1982 on ECM

As for Masahiko Satoh , One cant recommend strongly enough,the Hugely Potent "Yatagarasu' ,a trio with Broetzmann , and Moriyama, on the NOT TWO label
And the Magnificent, 'Signature' with Joelle Leandre , and Yuji Takahashi on RED TOUCAN

STEVE LACY SEXTET "THE WIRE" (DENON , 1977)

Lacy's ,Greatest Japanese lp (IMO, not that i've heard them all), and a very strong Contender for Best Lacy record period !

this was without a doubt one of his very best bands, the searing ecstatic almost unbearable intensity of most of this set ,is unusual and not often found in Lacys ouevre
Even on 'Free'classics like forrest and the zoo,and Roba, lacy is often restrained ,dry analytical , and sounding slightly detached.

Here we have some of his most violently expressionistic gestural playing on record, all while maintaining the spacious and uncluttered character of this sequence of Japanese records...

This definitive version of Deadline ,  is incredibly haunting ,Ikeda, Yoshizawa and Midorikawa hazily shimmering beneath some opiated distant glimpse of a slowly submerging dissapearing floating world ..

Unique and very beautiful....

S


"This album has a very dark mood, especially with the arco basses and the dissonant piano. The percussion too adds to the mood.
Every one plays well and interprets Lacy's composistions in a way that works exclusively with the selected sideman. If the album was recorded with his regular group at the time (Abei, Potts, Few, Carter, Johnson) it would have been completely different."
'prospectus', (from the comments to our initial mp3 post)


Steve Lacy Sextet-THE WIRE,
1/ The Twain (Lacy) 6:31
2/ Esteem (Lacy) 8:40
3/ The Owl (Lacy) 4:17
4/ The Wire (Lacy) 4:58
5/ Cloudy (Lacy) 6:12
6/ Dead Line (Lacy) 8:06

Recorded at Nippon Columbia's 1st Studio, Tokyo, June 18, 1975
Steve Lacy: soprano saxophone
Masahiko Satoh: piano
Masahiko Togashi: percussion
Keiki Midorikawa: cello, bass
Yoshio Ikeda: bass
Motoharu Yoshizawa: bass

1977 - Denon Jazz (Japan), YX 7553 (LP) 
Note: (3) is a duo with Steve Lacy and Masahiko Togashi.