Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Yoshiaki Fujikawa and EastAsia Orchestra

Sangatsu Sengen [+5]

(Super Fuji Discs, FJSP-185/186) (Japan) (2-CD set)

Disc 1

  1. Affresco (36:47)
  2. El Centauro (26:05)
  3. Only for Life (7:18)
  4. Never Say Die (2:22)
  5. This Is Heaven (2:15)

Disc 2

  1. Moonlight Mist (7:38)
  2. Fio Dental (35:20)
  3. Lonely Woman (11:17)
  4. Fleet Wing (13:05)
  5. Contrite (3:09)
Yoshiaki Fujikawa and EastAsia Orchestra
Yoshiaki Fujikawa: conductor, reeds (all tracks)
Tetsuji Yoshida: trumpet (CD 1, tracks 1-5; CD 2, tracks 1, 2, 4, 5)
Ichiyu Komiya: trumpet (CD 1, tracks 1-5; CD 2, tracks 1, 2, 4, 5)
Hiroshi Itaya: trombone (all tracks)
Haruki Satoh: trombone (all tracks)
Kazutoki Umezu: reeds (CD 1, tracks 1-5; CD 2, tracks 4, 5)
Shigeo Suzuki: reeds (CD 1, tracks 1-5)
Hiroaki Katayama: reeds (CD 1, tracks 1-5; CD 2, tracks 3-5)
Koichi Matsukaze: reeds (CD 1, tracks 1-5; CD 2, tracks 1-3)
Keiki Midorikawa: cello (all tracks)
Yoshio Ikeda: bass (CD 1, tracks 1-5; CD 2, tracks 1, 2)
Yoshisaburo Toyozumi: drums (CD 1, tracks 1-5; CD 2, tracks 1, 2)
Keizo Inoue: reeds (CD 2, tracks 1-3)
Junji Hirose: reeds (CD 2, tracks 1, 2)
Suetoshi Shimizu: reeds (CD 2, tracks 1, 2)
Kazumi Watanabe: guitar (CD 2, track 1)
Kenichi Yoshida: trumpet (CD 2, track 3)
Shunji Yamamoto: reeds (CD 2, track 3)
Yoriyuki Harada: piano (CD 2, track 3)
Hideaki Mochizuki: bass (CD 2, track 3)
Hozumi Tanaka: drums (CD 2, track 3)
Osamu Matsumoto: trombone (CD 2, tracks 4, 5)
Eiichi Hayashi: reeds (CD 2, tracks 4, 5)
Takeharu Hayakawa: bass (CD 2, tracks 4, 5)
Takashi Kikuchi: drums (CD 2, tracks 4-5)
Tatsuji Yokoyama: percussion (CD 2, tracks 4, 5)

CD 1, tracks 1-5 recorded live at Sangatsu Sengen, Zojoji Temple, Shiba, Tokyo, March 30, 1982
CD 2, track 1 recorded live at the Freedom Now Jazz Festival in the Large Concert Hall of Shinjuku Kosei Nenkin Kaikan, Tokyo, November 29, 1982
CD 2, track 2 recorded live at OAG Hall, German Culture Center, Akasaka, Tokyo, April 6, 1983
CD 2, track 3 recorded live at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, July 27, 1983
CD 2, tracks 4 and 5 recorded live February 23, 1985 (location unknown)
Includes a 20-page Japanese-language booklet with a history of Yoshiaki Fujikawa and EastAsia Orchestra, liner notes by Yoshiaki Fujikawa, the text of a conversation between Teruto Soejima and Yoshiaki Fujikawa (edited by Yuki Kinoshita), and black-and-white illustrations
Mastered by Soichiro Nakamura

Released in February 2013