/blindfold/ Saturday Edition

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Here's hoping that buddyrichan shows up to post the reveal info for this week's tracks

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hello~!!
i have the list of tracks right here, but not the full personnel. i will post them when you guys want it!

First track: Ryo Fukui - Autumn Leaves

Bass – Satoshi Denpo
Drums – Yoshinori Fukui
Piano – Ryo Fukui

Second track: Kohsuke Mine - Morning Tide

Alto Saxophone – Kohsuke Mine
Bass – Larry Ridley
Drums – Lenny McBrowne
Electric Piano – Masabumi Kikuchi

Third track: Suzuki Isao Trio - Blow Up

Bass – Takashi Mizuhashi
Bass, Cello – Isao Suzuki
Drums – George Otsuka
Piano – Kunihiko Sugano

Fourth track: Sadao Watanabe Anga La Jua (Place In The Sun)

Alto Saxophone – Sadao Watanabe
Bass – Jimmy Haslip
Drums – Alex Acuna
Percussion – Alex Acuna, Efrain Toro

Fifth track: Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Midnight Sugar

Bass – Isao Fukui
Drums – Tetsujiro Obara
Piano – Tsuyoshi Yamamoto

Sixth track: Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media - Breeze

Electric Piano – Hiromasa Suzuki
Drums – Hajime Ishimatsu
Electric Bass – Akira Okazawa
Guitar – Hiroshi Yasukawa
Trombone – Takashi Imai
Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Flute, Producer – Jiro Inagaki

Seventh track: Yosuke Yamashita Trio - Chiasma

Alto Saxophone – Akira Sakata
Drums – Takeo Moriyama
Piano – Yosuke Yamashita

Eighth track: Hidehiko Matsumoto Quintet - I'll Remember You

Bass - Shinya Kimura
Drums - Takeshi Inomata
Guitar - Shungo Sawada
Piano - Yuzuru Sera
Tenor Sax - Hidehiko Matsumoto

I think I've been a little mean to Japanese free jazz. I heard 3-4 artists who only seemed interested in making unusual timbres and kind of characterized the whole scene based on that. This was good though, gonna get the rest of this album.
Thanks for sharing buddy

Ninth track: Aya Takazawa - You Don't Know What Love Is

Trumpet - Aya Takazawa
Tenor Saxophone - Akihiro Nishiguchi
Piano - Jacob Koller
Bass - Koji Yasuda
Drums - Ryo Shibata

I didn't like that track too much.

But I will be checking out this one

Tenth track: Hiromi Uehara - Spark

Piano - Hiromi Uehara
Bass - Anthony Jackson
Drums - Simon Phillips

>mfw jtg calls ryo fukui a "student group"

really though, Youtube is full of videos of people playing Autumn Leaves in their bedroom with playalong tracks that sound better than that
youtube.com/watch?v=YDvStL3DjEs

i know the cover blows but its definitely in the running for jazz release of the year imo, please go listen!

Lel, he can be pretty brutal sometimes. I'm surprised he hadn't heard it before but I'm not surprised he wasn't crazy about it. He usually loves more complex/virtuosic playing and Fukui tends to play things pretty safe.

>He usually loves more complex/virtuosic playing and Fukui tends to play things pretty safe.
I don't think that's necessarily the case. There are a lot of players who play really simple stuff that I love- Chet Baker, Lester Young, Ahmad Jamal. But when you play simple you have to play with a lot of strong intent and conviction which I didn't really hear in that Fukui track.

I think a big part of it is also that the playing on that track reminds me a lot of my own playing, so I hear in it everything that I hate about my own playing which makes me extra critical.

Fair point. I feel like it's probs a general preference though and there's plenty of players who play simple/straightforward stuff but who are very invested in what they're doing who you tend not to like though. Pharaoh Sanders, Kamasi, etc.

fair enough but fukui is NOT a student group

if anyone thought this playlist was too shite (there was one funk track and one literal smooth jazz track in there) i didnt want to just make it a bebop circlejerk so i had to put a few variations here and there to accurately represent japanese jazz. thanks for participating, who will be the next compilator?

Well I think taste is a big part of it too. While Kamasi or Sanders definitely play simply in terms of harmony and rhythm I don't think either of them do it particularly tastefully in the way that the other players I mentioned do.

I never said he was, just that the trio sounds like a student group

I'm working on one that can probably be next week if nobody else has anything. There's a theme to it but I'd rather keep what the theme is a secret until the reveal or if anybody figures it out by listening.

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