Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Hiroaki Katayama

The Shadow of Your Smile

(Chitei Records, B44F) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Sombrero Samba [unknown] (14:52)
  2. The Shadow of Your Smile [Johnny Mandel] (20:47)
  3. The Blues [improvisation] (6:47)
  4. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise [Sigmund Romberg] (17:12)

Hiroaki Katayama: tenor saxophone
Kenichi Kameyama: drums
Takayuki Horigami: guitar
Haruki Sato: trombone (1, 3)
Takeharu Hayakawa: bass (1, 3)
Yatsuyoshi Ishii: bass (2, 4)
Shoji Aketagawa: piano (1)

Recorded live by Hisashi Kinomoto at Alone, Hachioji, July 31, 1977 (2, 4), and at Aketa no Mise, Nishiogikubo, Tokyo, March 25, 1978 (1, 3)
Mastered by Yoshio Kobayashi at Victor Creative Media, Daikanyama, Tokyo
Design by Tomoo Maruono
Photo by Hisashi Miyahira
Produced by Hiroaki Katayama and Mitsutoshi Yoshida
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Hisashi Kinomoto and Hiroaki Katayama

Released in May 2009