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Kaoru Abe

CD Box 1970-1973

(Youth Inc., YOUTH-142) (Japan) (7-CD set)

Disc 1: Kaoru Abe Trio

  1. 1970.3.15-1 (18:06)
  2. 1970.3.15-2 (25:15)

Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone, shakuhachi
Keiichi Senda: bass
Kazunori Nitta: drums

*Although the personnel above are listed on the disc, it seems that the musicians playing the music are actually Abe, a pianist, and a drummer.

Recorded live by Jin Ishitani at Shinjuku Pit Inn New Jazz Hall, March 15, 1970

Disc 2: Kaoru Abe/Hiroshi Yamazaki Duo

  1. 1971.1.24. Duo 1 (33:34)
  2. 1971.1.24. Duo 2 (20:34)

Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone
Hiroshi Yamazaki: drums

Recorded live at Jazz Bed, Ikebukuro, Tokyo, January 24, 1971

Disc 3: Kaoru Abe Solo

  1. 1972.1.21 Alto 1 (8:31)
  2. 1972.1.21 Alto 2 (12:51)
  3. 1972.1.21 Bcl 1 (18:28)
  4. 1972.1.21 Alto 3 (10:52)

Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone (1, 2, 4), bass clarinet (3)

Recorded live by Jin Ishitani at Pit Inn Tea Room, Tokyo, January 21, 1972

Disc 4: Kaoru Abe Solo

  1. 1972.4.11 Alto 1 (14:32)
  2. 1972.4.11 Alto 2 (16:36)
  3. 1972.4.11 Alto 3 (20:32)

Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone

Recorded live by Jin Ishitani at Pulcinella, Shibuya, Tokyo, April 11, 1972

Disc 5: Kaoru Abe Solo

  1. 1972.7.13 Alto 1 (11:21)
  2. 1972.7.13 Alto 2 (17:16)
  3. 1972.7.13 Alto 3 (21:49)

Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone

Recorded live at Pulcinella, Shibuya, Tokyo, July 13, 1972

Disc 6: Kaoru Abe Winter 1972

  1. (24:17)
  2. (4:27)
  3. (17:54)

Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone

Recorded live in 1972

Disc 7: Kaoru Abe Solo 1973

  1. (21:37)

Kaoru Abe: alto saxophone

Recorded live in 1973

Photos by Yuji Itsumi

Released in January 2012
Disc 1 originally released in 1995 as a CD on P.S.F. Records (PSFD-56) with the title 1970.3.15 Shinjuku
Disc 2 originally released in 1995 as a CD on P.S.F. Records (PSFD-67) with the title Jazz Bed
Disc 3 originally released in 1994 as a CD on P.S.F. Records (PSFD-40) with the title Mata no Hi no Yume Monogatari
Disc 4 originally released in 1994 as a CD on P.S.F. Records (PSFD-46) with the title Hikari Kagayaku Nintai
Disc 5 originally released in 1995 as a CD on P.S.F. Records (PSFD-66) with the title Mokuyobi no Yoru
Disc 6 originally released in the early 1970s as a bootleg LP on Sound Works (MN-3039) and in 2004 as a CD on P.S.F. Records (PSFD-158) with the title Winter 1972
Disc 7 previously unreleased