Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Altered States

Plays Standards

(Station Kids, SKCA-1003) (CD)


  1. All the Things You Are (O. Hammerstein II - J. Kern) (3:00)
  2. Oleo (S. Rollins) (1:46)
  3. Blue Moon (R. Rodgers - L. Hart) (3:28)
  4. Someone to Watch over Me (G. and I. Gershwin) (6:45)
  5. A Night in Tunisia (F. Paparelli - D. Gillespie) (5:20)
  6. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein II - Romberg) (6:25)
  7. Hello Dolly (Herman) (2:13)
  8. The Shadow of Your Smile (J. Mandell) (1:51)
  9. Peace (H. Silver) (2:40)
  10. Over the Rainbow (Harburg - Arlen) (3:05)
  11. Bohemia after Dark (Adderley) (3:52)
  12. You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye - DePaul) (4:17)
  13. In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck) (4:50)
  14. Spring Is Here (R. Rodgers - L. Hart) (2:38)
  15. Mood Indigo (D. Ellington) (2:56)
  16. Misty (E. Garner) (5:05)

Kazuhisa Uchihashi: guitar
Mitsuru Nasuno: bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: pocket trumpet (7), drums

All arranged by Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Altered States
Produced by Jun Tanaka and Kazuhisa Uchihashi
Recorded by Tatsuki Masuko at Earth Studio in Tokyo on June 15 and 16, 1999
Mixed by Kazuhisa Uchihashi in Kobe, 1999
Mastered by Hisashi Mizoguchi at Power City in Kobe on October 5, 1999
Design and Photography: Etsuko Izumi
Includes liner notes by Yoshiyuki Suzuki in Japanese and English

Released November 1999