Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Masayuki Takayanagi
Nobuyoshi Ino

Reason for Being

(Jinya Disc, B-02) (Japan) (CD)

  1. Hackensack (8:05)
  2. You Don't Know What Love Is (9:09)
  3. 900320 (10:42)
  4. Reason for Being (9:31)
  5. 901027 (10:29)

Compositions by Thelonious Monk (1), Don Ray and Gene DePaul (2), and Masayuki Takayanagi (3-5)

Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar
Nobuyoshi Ino: bass

Recorded live at Lovely, Nagoya, March 20,1990 (1-3), and at Romanisches Cafe, Tokyo, October 27, 1990 (4, 5)
Produced by Yasunori Saito
Mastered by Yukio Kojima
Art direction by Hidetoshi Shinohara
Artwork by Yoko Hase
Photo by Yasunori Saito
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Yasunori Saito

Released in 1992