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]

SHOMYO VS JAZZ (声明VSジャズ) "BUDDHA" (CBS, 1977)

Here on side A we have monks chanting with Jazz. I know only one other project which mixes Jazz with Buddhist chanting: Bardo State Orchestra - Wheels within wheels.

Thanks to mvns!



Tetsuo Fushimi, trumpet
Konosuke Saijo, tenor saxophone
Norio Maeda, piano
Yasuo Arakawa, bass
Takeshi Inomata, drums


A1. 般若心経     5:11
A2. 般若理趣経     19:03
B1. フォー  (Four)           9:15
B2. キュート   (Cute)  10:57
B3. 奠供             1:39

Recorded in front of a live audience. Side A has (three?) monks chanting, while side B contains regular jazz playing.

CBS / Sony ‎– 25AG 234 (1977)
(vinyl rip - high def)

NORIO MAEDA - SAXOPHONE UNITY (COLUMBIA, 1967)

A1. Take 5
A2. 'Round About Midight
A3. Oleo
A4. Night In Phirygia

B1. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
B2. What Is This Thing Called Love?
B4. On Green Dolphin Street
B4. Dead Heat


Norio Maeda, piano, arranger
Akira Miyazawa, tenor saxophone, flute
Shigeo Suzuki, alto saxophone, flute
Akitoshi Igrarashi, alto saxophone
Konosuke Saijo, tenor saxophone
Ichiro Mimori, tenor saxophone
Horoshi Okazaki, baritone saxophone
Takeshi Inomata, drums
Tatsuro Takimoto, bass


Columbia - Takt Jazz Series - XMS-10031-CT

LP Rip