Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Mitsuo Koshiba

Preparation and Practice for a Koshiba Style Solo

(SPC Records, SPC-MK-0001) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Basic Design with a Soprano Saxophone (7:06)
  2. Improvement of Clarinet (9:08)
  3. Magnification Change (for Bass Clarinet) (6:07)
  4. The Trial Product for a Soprano Saxophone (7:45)
  5. Jig for Tenor Saxophone (7:02)
  6. Jig for Bass Clarinet (8:36)
  7. Teatime (for Soprano Saxophone) (8:30)

Mitsuo Koshiba: soprano saxophone (1, 4, 7), clarinet (2), bass clarinet (3, 6), tenor saxophone (5)

Produced by Masami Irumagawa
Recorded at Yoga Junior High School, September 2001
Design by Tomomi Nagakura
Includes liner notes in Japanese and English by Chihiro S. (English translation by Rie Yoshitake)

Released in 2002