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New Direction

Kaitaiteki Kokan

(Diw Records, DIW-415) (Japan) (CD)


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New Direction
Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar
Kaoru Abe: alto sax, bass clarinet, harmonica

Recorded live at Kosei Nenkin Hall in Tokyo on June 28, 1970 by Kozo Kenmochi
Produced by Sound Creators Inc.
Director: Masayuki Takayanagi
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Atsushi Sasaki and Akira Aida; and a review of the concert on June 28, 1970 by Toshihiko Shimizu, which originally appeared on the August 1970 issue of Swing Journal

Released August 1999
Originally released 1970 as an LP on Sound Creator Inc.