SWING JOURNAL JAZZ WORKSHOP: 4 "2 TO 10 / SAXOPHONE ADVENTURE" (PHILIPS, 1970)

If someone would have asked me whether this LP is available at Inconstant Sol I would have answered with a firm "yes".
But I was wrong.  How come I had this 'false memory' I don't know but now I'm almost 100% sure that I got this rip from Nick already five years ago....


Side A - 深海  (25:55)
Mototeru Takagi, bass clarinet and composition
Yoshisaburo (Sabu) Toyozumi, drums

Side B - Plot (プロット)  (19:27)
Masabumi Kikuchi, conductor and composition
Takeru Muraoka, tenor saxophone
Hisahide Kato, soprano saxophone
Mototeru Takagi, bass clarinet
Masahiro Suzuki, electric piano
Masahiko Sato , piano
Kunimitsu Inaba, bass
Yasuo Arakawa, bass
Yoshisaburo Toyozumi, drums
Otsuka George, drums

Recorded live at Yamaha Hall, Tokyo, on 15 April 1970.

PHILIPS FX-8503 (1970)
(vinyl rip)

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)

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)

USHIO SAKAI - JAM IN YOKOTA (ELEC RECORDS, 1973)

A1. Minor Kimuchi
A2. Blues Talk

B1. Mrs. Robinson
B2. Soul Talk

C1. Pig's Legs
C2. Blind Man

D1. Blues In My Soul
D2. Georgia On My Mind
D3. Pepe


Ushio Sakai, Hammond B3 organ
Tetsuo Fushimi, trumpet
Teddy Adams, trombone
Takeru (Ken) Muraoka, tenor saxophone
Hidehiko Matsumoto, tenor saxophone
Ryo Kawasaki, guitar
Motohiko Hino, drums

Elec Records - ELW-3004

Recorded live at the Yokota Non-Commissioned Officers' Open Mess, on 8 April 1973

LP Rip

TAKERU MURAOKA ‎– TAKERU (PHILIPS, 1970)

A1. Snoopy
A2. Easy Ridin'
A3. Fish

B1. Electric Zoo
B2. Desperation


Takeru Muraoka, tenor saxophone
Yoshio Ikeda, bass
George Otsuka, drums
Masabui Kikuchi, electric piano


Recorded at Victor Studio on 23 February 1970

Philips ‎– FX-8502

LP Rip