Artist: Hideo Shiraki Quintet
Title Of Album: Sakura Sakura
Year Of Release: 1965/2015
Label (Catalog#) : MPS Records
Country:: Japan
Genre: Jazz, Modal
Quality: FLAC (*tracks)
Bitrate: 24bit / 88kHz
Time: 37:53
Full Size: 727Mb(+3%)
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A landmark session of world jazz! This is one of the first entries in MPS' "Jazz Meets The World" series – and it features the quintet of Japanese drummer Hideo Shiraki (featuring a young Terumasa Hino on trumpet), working with additional traditional instrumentation by three female Koto players. The combination of postwar Japanese hardbop and folkloric melodies is astounding – and the format allows the jazz players to groove at their best, while still interacting nicely with the Kotos. The record is a gem through and through – with a visionary sound that shows that MPS was already one of the most groundbreaking labels in jazz, even at an early age. Titles include "Alone Alone and Alone", "Suvwa", "Yamanaka Bushi", and "Sakura, Sakura".
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Adulated in his native Japan, drummer Hideo Shiraki led the most famous Japanese jazz group of the early 60’s. His combining jazz and traditional Japanese music brought him an invitation to the 1965 Berlin Jazz Festival and a record date. Three women playing Koto, the traditional Japanese stringed instrument, accompanied the quintet. The results: world music that works. Known in the West as ‘the Cherry Blossom Song’, the traditional Sakura Sakura finds Shiraki employing mallets, fingers, brushes, and sticks in combination with the Kyoto players as jazz and tradition blend. Yosakoi Bushi means ‘better come at night to make love’. There’s a feel of bluesy early Coltrane in the relaxed swing and soprano solo. Yamanaka Bushi is a song from the Yamanaka Onsen, or hot springs. The quintet bathes in the song’s heat, as a young Terumasa Hino displays why he’s a world-renowned trumpeter. Matsuri No Genzo conjures the images of a rural temple feast. After a haunting Koto refrain, everyone has a taste, and Shiraki’s play makes sure there are no leftovers. Hino takes the melody and solos exquisitely on his ballad Alone, Alone And Alone. Suwa is another Hino piece. The Koto takes on an almost Avant-garde role here, with an electronic-sounding accompaniment to the muted trumpet melody. An amazing coalescence of the serene traditional music of Japan and the youthful vitality of jazz.

Tracks:
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1. Sakura, sakura - 8:07
2. Yosakoi-Bushi - 4:04
3. Yamanaka bushi - 6:43
4. Matsuri no genzo - 6:11
5. Alone, Alone and Alone - 6:15
6. Suwa - 6:10

Personnel:
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Bass – Hachiro Kurita
Drums – Hideo Shiraki
Koto – Keiko Nosaka, Kinuko Shurane
Koto [Bass] – Sachiko Miyamoto
Piano – Yuzuru Sera
Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Takeru Muraoka
Trumpet – Terumasa Hino

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