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Yosuke Yamashita Trio

April Fool: Coming Muhammad Ali

(Super Fuji Discs, FJSP-47) (Japan) (CD)

  1. "Muhammad Ali" Call (3:22)
  2. Clay (7:03)
  3. Press Conference at Benihana, New York, to Announce the Muhammad Ali and Mac Foster Fight (2:32)
  4. Sand Bag (3:49)
  5. Muhammad Ali Interviewed in His Home (3:52)
  6. Keikotan (3:07)
  7. At a Press Conference Just after Arriving in Japan (1:25)
  8. Laughing (3:06)
  9. Muhammad Ali Answering Questions Asked by Rocky Aoki (4:33)
  10. Clay (0:58)
  11. At the Weigh-in Press Conference (3:49)
  12. Clay (7:19)
  13. 10 Counts to Bury His Slave Name, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. (0:34)

Yosuke Yamashita Trio (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12)
Yosuke Yamashita: piano
Seiichi Nakamura: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Takeo Moriyama: drums

Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 include Muhammad Ali speaking at press conferences and in an interview; sounds of his training; and an announcer's introduction and the 11-year-old singer Little Dion's rendition of the U.S. national anthem before Ali's fight

Tracks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 recorded in November 1971
Remastered by Soichiro Nakamura in 2008
Produced by Yoshio Ko
Includes Japanese liner notes by Masaaki Hiraoka

Released in October 2008
Originally released in 1972 as an LP on U.R.C. Records