Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

Hideto Kanai Group

"Q"

(Three Blind Mice Records/Sony Music Direct, MHCP-10045) (Japan) (CD)

  1. April Songs for Kanai, Zui-zui-zui-du-tubadaba (13:46)
  2. Q (9:59)
  3. Kaleidoscope (5:54)
  4. Meditation (12:11)

Music by Shuko Mizuno (1), Hideto Kanai (2, 3), and Hiroshi Nanatsuya (4)

Hideto Kanai Group
Hideto Kanai: bass
Kosuke Mine: alto saxophone (1, 2)
Allan Praskin: alto saxophone (1, 2)
Tadayuki Harada: baritone saxophone (1)
Masamichi Suzuki: trumpet (1)
Hiroshi Koizumi: flute (4)
Choyo Kanda: xylophone (2)
Masayuki Takayanagi: guitar (4)
Mototeru Hino: drums (1, 2)
Hiroshi Yamazaki: drums (3, 4)

Recorded by Yoshihiko Kannari at Aoi Studio, Tokyo, May 9 (1, 2) and 17 (3, 4), 1971
Produced by Takeshi Fujii
Art direction by Tsutomu Nishizawa
DSD (Direct Stream Digital) remastered in 2007
Includes liner notes in Japanese by Osamu Uchida, Takeshi Fujii, and Masamichi Okazaki

Released in July 2007
Originally released as an LP (TBM-6) in 1971