Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Yuki Maeda

Jazz Age: Gershwin Song Book II

(EWE Records, EWCD 0003) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Lorelei (4:30)
  2. Summertime (5:42)
  3. I Got Rhythm (2:41)
  4. He Loves and She Loves (3:13)
  5. Do It Again! (4:11)
  6. The Life of a Rose (2:14)
  7. I've Got a Crush on You (3:59)
  8. Someone to Watch over Me (5:21)
  9. Just Another Rhumba (5:10)
  10. Love Walked In (3:35)
  11. I Loves You Porgy (6:16)
  12. Love Is Here to Stay (2:31)

All music by George Gershwin
All lyrics by Ira Gershwin, except 2 and 11 (by Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gershwin); and 5 and 6 (by B.G. De Sylva)

All vocals by Yuki Maeda

  1. Kyoko Kuroda: piano, accordion, voice, arrangement
  2. Febian Reza Pane: piano, arrangement
  3. Hiroshi Minami: piano, arrangement
    Daiki Yasukagawa: bass
    Tsunoken: drums
  4. Yosuke Yamashita: piano, arrangement
  5. Jun Miyake: fender rhodes, flugelhorn, programming, arrangement
    Dairo Miyamoto: snare drums
    Mataro Misawa: snare drum, propeller
    Hitoshi Watanabe: bass
  6. Satsuki Shibano: piano
    Shezoo: arrangement
  7. Junichiro Ohkuchi: piano, arangement
  8. Masahiko Satoh: piano, arrangement
  9. Masahiro Sayama: piano, arrangement
    Masatoshi Koi: bass
    Yoichi Okabe: percussion
  10. Takeshi Shibuya: piano, arrangement
  11. Fumio Itabashi: piano, arrangement
  12. Shizu: piano, arrangement

Produced by Haruo Mita and Yuki Maeda
Recorded and mixed by Yukihiro Fukuda
Mastered by Wataru Ishii
Recorded at Onkio Haus in Tokyo, November 1997-February 1998
Art direction and design by Masaru Hagiwara
Photography by Yukio Ichikawa
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Hiroshi Unno and Keiichi Baba

Released August 1998