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Sadao Watanabe,Hiroshi Fukumura,Kohsuke Mine,Kazumi Watanabe,Honda Takehiro,Okada Tsutomu,Okazawa Akira,Mori Shinji

[EAST WIND MASTERS COLLECTION 1000] Recommendation for Adult Jazz! The best recordings on the EAST WIND label for only 1000 yen (excluding tax)! East Wind, Japan’s world-class jazz label, started in 1975.” To celebrate the label’s 40th anniversary, the entire catalog is being reissued in a limited 1000 yen edition. This is the first release in 13 years for the series and uses DSD remastering. This live album includes the “Sadao Watanabe Recital,” which won the 1976 Art Festival Grand Prize. The album features an ambitious lineup of original compositions that synthesize jazz, bossa nova, and African sounds. The open-ended masterpiece “Pastoral” and the beautiful ballad “Old Photograph” with soprano are wonderful.

Sadao Watanabe (as, fl, sopranino), Hiroshi Fukumura (tb), Atsusuke Mine (ts, ss), Katsumi Watanabe (g), Takehiro Honda (p, el-p), Tsutomu Okada (b), Akira Okazawa (el-b), Shinji Mori (ds), Masahiko Togashi (per) October 19, 1976 at Post Savings Hall, Tokyo Recorded live *Production quantity ended or limited shipping until the end of February 2019.