Sadao Watanabe - Sadao Watanabe At Montreux Jazz Festival (1970) [2014 Japan Jazz Collection 1000] CD-Rip

Reissue with the latest DSD remastering. Comes with liner notes. A searing performance from Japanese jazz giant Sadao Watanabe – and key proof that he was a hell of a player in the years before he softened things up! There's a blissful post-Coltrane post-Miles sort of vibe going on here with Watanabe really jamming things up on the main track on the album – "Round Trip Going & Coming", which features incredible work on soprano sax, and eventually rolls into a kicked-up electric groove that has Sadao playing electric keys, alongside guitar, bass, and drums. Side two features slightly shorter tracks, but still with a great degree of exploratory freedom and fresh improvisation from Sadao – and titles include "Lament" and "Tokyo Suite: Sunset".


Tracks:

01 - Round Trip: Going And Coming
02 - Lament
03 - Tokyo Suite: Sunset
04 - Pastoral - Theme

Personnel:

Sadao Watanabe - alto sax, flute & sopranino
Yoshio Suzuki - bass
Yoshiaki Masuo - guitar
Hiro Tsunoda - drums