Shotaro Moriyasu & Toshiko Akiyoshi - The Complete Historic Mocambo Session '54 (1998)

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Artist: Shotaro Moriyasu & Toshiko Akiyoshi
Title: The Complete Historic Mocambo Session '54
Year Of Release: 1998
Label: Polydor [POCJ-2624/6]
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log)
Total Time: 03:41:10
Total Size: 1.3 GB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

CD1:

01. I Want to Be Happy (10:12)
02. Out of Nowhere (11:04)
03. This Love of Mine (6:16)
04. On a Slow Boat to China (9:19)
05. Strike Up the Band (16:03)
06. Tenderly (8:06)
07. Everything Happens to Me (7:55)

CD2:

01. Steeple Chase (10:31)
02. My Funny Valentine (7:59)
03. Perdido (22:58)
04. It's Only a Paper Moon (5:18)
05. Fine and Dandy (15:23)
06. Taking a Chance on Love (9:20)
07. Thou Swell (5:09)

CD3:

01. Donna Lee (10:25)
02. Air Conditioning (16:03)
03. Ballad Medley: Tenderly/Moonlight in Vermont/I Want to Be Loved/These Foolish Things/It Could Happen to You / I'm Through with Love/Yesterdays/Time on My Hands (14:16)
04. Mop Mop (16:47)
05. Ballad Medley: Lover Man/I'll Keep Loving You/Day by Day/Embraceable You (10:09)
06. Just One of Those Things (7:57)

"There is almost no musical documentation about the modern jazz scene in Japan at its beginnings, for no recording companies were interested at that time.
In fact, if an 19-year-old university student named Kiyoshi Iwami had not taken down these historic sessions on Scotch 'paper' tapes with his hand-made machine, the scene would have lapsed into obscurity forever. Iwami is now working as a veteran audio sound director at NTV Television studios.
The third Mocambo Jam Session was planned by Hajime Hana, the now famous comedian-drummer, with the help of bassist Tadashi Ide and guitarist Shungo Sawada as a benefit for Jun Shimizu, the top drummer who had just come back to the scene after a long illness.
Meanwhile, the music speaks for itself.
Amazingly, every musician listed here is still part of the Japanese jazz scene except for Hisao Suzuki, now retired, and Shotaro Mariyasu who committed suicide on September 28th, 1955.
In this album you will find something quite surprising-Toshiko Akiyoshi plays bass in "It's Only A Paper Moon." What happened was this: Especially the bassist who disappeared just before the session for "It's Only A Paper Moon." So at the very last minute, Toshiko tried to play bass. You will be able to feel the tesion [sic] she was under during the session, and the feminine voice in this tune is just Toshiko."
-- Shoichi Yui, President of "the Hot Club of Japan"

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