Isao Quartet +1 Suzuki Blue City

Release date:
May 30, 2025
Label:
Pre-order vinyl:

● Japan import
● Label: Three Blind Mice / Sony Music Labels, Inc.
● Cat#: MHJL-403
● Remastered and cut by Bernie Grundman
● Original release completely reproduced as faithfully as possible, with original obi and insert
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official Three Blind Mice reissue. Original release date: 1974 (TBM-24)
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*** VINYL ONLY RELEASE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO DIGITAL VERSION COMING WITH THIS RELEASE ***

Isao Suzuki’s second album after “Blow Up”, which made him known to the Jazz world. An essential masterpiece in the Japanese Jazz canon, with fantastic interplay between the players.

Tracklist:

A1 Body And Soul
Composed By – Edward Heyman, Franch Eyton, Robert Sour

A2 45th Street At 8th Avenue

Composed By – I. Suzuki



B1 Play Fiddle Play

Composed By – Arthur Altman, Emery Deutsch



B2 Blue City

Composed By – I. Suzuki



Personnel:



Bass, Cello – Isao Suzuki

Drums – Tetsujiro Obara

Guitar – Kazumi Wanatabe

Piano – Kunihiko Sugano

Recording and mix – Yoshihiko Kannari

Art Direction, Cover – Ben Nishizawa

Liner Notes – Osamu Uchida, Teruo Isono

Producer – Takeshi Fujii



Recorded March 4, 1974, at Aoi Studio, Tokyo.

Tracklist:
  • 1. Body and Soul
  • 2. 45th Street (At 8th Avenue)
  • 3. Play Fiddle Play
  • 4. Blue City

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