Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Yosuke Yamashita Trio
Brass 12

Introducing Takeo Moriyama

(Super Fuji Discs, FJSP-208) (Japan) (CD)


  1. Hachi (11:42)
  2. Ballad for Y.Y. (9:29)
  3. Take One (10:52)
  4. Gugan (7:43)

Composed by Takeo Moriyama (1-3) and Yosuke Yamashita (4)
All arranged by Takeo Moriyama, Seiichi Nakamura, and Yosuke Yamashita

Yosuke Yamashita Trio
Yosuke Yamashita: piano
Seiichi Nakamura: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Takeo Moriyama: drums

Brass 12
Hisahide Katoh: tenor saxophone
Mabumi Yamaguchi: alto saxophone
Kunio Fujisaki: trumpet
Susumu Kazuhara: trumpet
Tohru Oogoshi: trumpet
Kenji Yoshida: trumpet
Masao Suzuki: baritone saxophone
Shigeharu Mukai: trombone
Naoki Takahashi: trombone
Hisashi Nishimura: trombone
Hisashi Imai: trombone
Kyosuke Aikawa: tuba

Recorded by Kenichi Kosuge at Toshiba Studio, September 25, 1971
Includes an 8-page booklet with Japanese liner notes by Kazunori Harada

Released in May 2013
Originally released in 1971 as an LP on Express (ETJ-9001)