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Shudan Sokai

Sono Zenya: Live at Hachioji Alone

(Bridge, BRIDGE-049) (Japan) (CD)


  1. AGF Is (29:25)
  2. Renaissance (9:22)
  3. Kowai Ohanashi (2:22)
  4. Cecil no Ballad (9:49)

Shudan Sokai
Kazutoki Umezu: alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
Yoriyuki Harada: piano, soprano saxophone
Takashi Kikuchi: drums, percussion
Junji Mori: alto saxophone

Recorded live by Motohisa Kina at Alone, Hachioji, Tokyo, December 24, 1976
Includes liner notes by Mitsuru Koyama and Keizo Inoue, and an excerpt of The History of Japanese Free Jazz, by Teruto Soejima (all in Japanese)

Released in March 2006
Originally released in 1977 as an LP on Des-Chonboo Records