Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Kazutoki Umezu

Show the Frog

(doubtmusic, dms-104) (Japan) (CD)


  1. I Want to Talk about You [Billy Eckstine] (6:24)
  2. The Star of the County Down [Irish traditional, arranged by Kazutoki Umezu] (4:08)
  3. A Lonely Dolphin [Kazutoki Umezu] (2:03)
  4. The Captured Two Rabbits [Kazutoki Umezu] (4:25)
  5. A Nakht in Gn Eydn [Harry Kandel] (4:23)
  6. 1970 [Kazutoki Umezu] (2:58)
  7. Chakton [Ainu traditional, arranged by Kazutoki Umezu] (2:54)
  8. Kamifusen [Nobuyoshi Ino] (3:53)
  9. In Walked Bud [Thelonious Monk] (2:43)
  10. Show the Frog [Kazutoki Umezu] (6:20)
  11. Moon Cat [Kazutoki Umezu] (6:40)

Kazutoki Umezu: bass clarinet

Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, Tokyo, March 28, 2005
Mastered by Tsutomu Suto
Produced by Kazutoki Umezu and Jun Numata
Includes liner notes by Kazutoki Umezu (in Japanese and English; translation by Mari Nabeshima)

Released in July 2005