Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Kaoru Abe

Partitas-Unfinished

(Clinck Records, CRCD5012-13) (Japan) (2-CD set)


CD 1

  1. Alpha (23:26)
  2. Beta (17:39)

CD 2

  1. Gamma (17:23)
  2. Delta (19:28)

Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone

Recorded at ACT's 105, Tokyo, March 1973
Engineered by Koji Nagasaka
Mixed by Tadahiko Saito
Cover art and design by Makoto Hagiwara
Photos by Kazuo Komizu and Masahiko Akuta
Produced by Masahiko Akuta
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Masahiko Akuta; and brief comments by Toshihiko Shimizu, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Taiji Tonoyama, Ryu Murakami, Toshio Natsugiwa, Takehisa Kosugi, Yosuke Yamashita, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshinori Kondo, Hiroyuki Itsuki, and Tetsuo Fukushima in Japanese, and Milford Graves, Frank Lowe, Arthur Blythe, Sirone, Billy Bang, and Lee Konitz in English

Released in May 2007
Originally released in 1981 as a 2-LP set on Trio Records