VARIOUS - Ginparis Session June 26 1963 (remastered) - 180 GRAM VINYL LP
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Ginparis Session June 26 1963 (remastered)
Sony Music Japan
180 gram vinyl LP + booklet with obi-strip Cat: MHJL 471Rel: 27 Oct 25
Jazz Side 1 - Track 1. Track 1 Side 1 - Track 2. Track 2 Side 2 - Track 1. Track 3 Side 2 - Track 2. Track 4
Masayuki Takayanagi's 1963 Ginparis Session was an early flashpoint in Japanese modern jazz. Recorded live at the Ginparis club in Tokyo, the guitarist assembled a sharp unit under the Shinseiki Ongaku Kenkyujo banner with drummer Masahiko Togashi, pianist Masabumi Kikuchi and bassist Hideto Kanai. The set mixes standards with exploratory edges: 'Greensleeves' is a jagged meditation on the English broadside ballad, its fractured lyricism later cited as a breakthrough moment for Takayanagi's career; 'Nardis' and 'If I Were A Bell' are stretched into tense, searching frameworks; closer 'Obstruction' hints at the free directions Takayanagi would pursue more fully in the late 60s. Issued here on LP, this session captures the ferment of a scene beginning to move beyond imitation and into a distinctly Japanese jazz vernacular.
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