Tag: Japan
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Japan, Japan, 1982 on Epic
Compilation album released (in the US) on Epic in 1982, bringing together most of Tin Drum plus some from Gentlemen Take Polaroids. (Neither of those was formally released in the US until 1994). I’ve got a UK Tin Drum but still looking for a good vinyl copy of Gentlemen. One the best underrated bands of…
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Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan At Budokan, 1979 on Columbia
Third of three live Dylan albums from the 70s (Before the Flood and Hard Rain are the other two), and the second to be 2xLP in format, At Budokan was recorded at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo in February and March of 1978. (The US release was in 1979). Many folks don’t care for the…
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Abbey Lincoln, Abbey is Blue, 1960 on Riverside
I first discovered Abbey Lincoln via Vinyl Me Please’s reissue of It’s Magic from 1958, in the VMP Classics Series. This album was a followup to that, her fourth full-length album and the third on Riverside. Musicians here include Stanley Turrentine, his broth Tommy Turrentine (on trumpet), Max Roach (to whom Lincoln was later married),…
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Irma Thomas, Down at Muscle Shoals, 1984 on Chess
Thomas recorded for Chess in the late sixties, and made this recording at Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals in 1967, but the album was not released until 1984 (in Japan). It’s very hard to find in the Japanese vinyl, though it was reissued on CD in 1991. There are no credits for musicians, though…
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Herbie Hancock, Quartet, 1982 on Columbia
Hancock with Ron Carter on Bass, Tony Williams on Drums, and Wynton Marsalis on Trumpet – recorded in 1981 at CBS Sony Studios in Tokyo. Great versions of ‘Round Midnight, Parade. A “digital recording” then mastered back to vinyl – I don’t necessarily seek those out but have a few from the 80s Via a…
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Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Plays The Cole Porter Song Book, 1959 on Verve.
Oscar Peterson, Oscar Peterson Plays The Cole Porter Song Book, 1959 on Verve. I love the “song book” albums from the fifties – [artist] plays the [composer] song book. I have some Ella, some Oscar Peterson, and others. My copy is a Japanese pressing from the early 80s – great quality.
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The Original Blues Project, Reunion in Central Park, 1973 on MCA / Sounds of the South.
The Original Blues Project, Reunion in Central Park, 1973 on MCA / Sounds of the South. Concert recorded June 1973 with Al Kooper, Steve Katz, Danny Kalb, Roy Blumenfeld, and Andy Kulberg. 13 minute plus “Two Trains Running” and a 7 plus minute “Caress Me Baby.” My copy is a Japanese pressing
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Japan, Assemblage, 1981 on Hansa.
Japan, Assemblage, 1981 on Hansa. Collected tracks from their first three Hansa releases: Obscure Alternatives, Adolescent Sex, and Quiet Life, before the went to Virgin. Not necessarily the band you think of covering I Second That Emotion and All Tomorrows Parties . . . My copy seems to be a German pressing via Deep Thoughts,…
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Japan, Obscure Alternatives, 1978 on Ariola/ Hansa.
Japan, Obscure Alternatives, 1978 on Ariola/ Hansa. Japan’s second album, concluding with the 7 minute plus piano instrumental This is the US version which had a different track order than the UK and the band name in red on the cover as opposed to blue