Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Altered States

Plays Standards

(Station Kids, SKCA-1003) (CD)


  1. All the Things You Are (O. Hammerstein II - J. Kern) (3:00)
  2. Oleo (S. Rollins) (1:46)
  3. Blue Moon (R. Rodgers - L. Hart) (3:28)
  4. Someone to Watch over Me (G. and I. Gershwin) (6:45)
  5. A Night in Tunisia (F. Paparelli - D. Gillespie) (5:20)
  6. Softly as in a Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein II - Romberg) (6:25)
  7. Hello Dolly (Herman) (2:13)
  8. The Shadow of Your Smile (J. Mandell) (1:51)
  9. Peace (H. Silver) (2:40)
  10. Over the Rainbow (Harburg - Arlen) (3:05)
  11. Bohemia after Dark (Adderley) (3:52)
  12. You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye - DePaul) (4:17)
  13. In Your Own Sweet Way (Brubeck) (4:50)
  14. Spring Is Here (R. Rodgers - L. Hart) (2:38)
  15. Mood Indigo (D. Ellington) (2:56)
  16. Misty (E. Garner) (5:05)

Uchihashi Kazuhisa: guitar
Mitsuru Nasuno: bass
Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: pocket trumpet (7), drums

All arranged by Uchihashi Kazuhisa and Altered States
Produced by Jun Tanaka and Uchihashi Kazuhisa
Recorded by Tatsuki Masuko at Earth Studio, Tokyo, June 15 and 16, 1999
Mixed by Uchihashi Kazuhisa in Kobe, 1999
Mastered by Hisashi Mizoguchi at Power City, Kobe, October 5, 1999
Design and Photography by Etsuko Izumi
Includes liner notes by Yoshiyuki Suzuki in Japanese and English

Released in November 1999