Leeward, by Mabumi Yamaguchi Quartet

Leeward

by Mabumi Yamaguchi Quartet

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Reissued for the first time with its original cover.

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1.	Dawn - 12:32 12:36	buy track
2.	Dewdrop – 6:58 07:01	buy track
3.	Distant Thunder – 10:33 10:33	buy track
4.	Leeward – 9:32 09:39	buy track

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Leeward opens with "Dawn" a long and slow piece led by a Fender Rhodes played in flanger mode, on which Mabumi Yamaguchi expresses a certain melancholy, which we also find on “Dewdrop”, a duet piece with Ichiro Doi at the piano. The rhythm picks up on "Distant thunder", a kind of jazz-funk samba in which Mabumi Yamaguchi lets each of his musicians take a long chorus before ending by taking up the haunting theme of this superb piece. The beautiful "Leeward" closes the album in a slightly more traditional but equally mastered style. It is not known if the cover of this album contributed to its lack of success when it was released, but it is almost impossible today to find an original pressing of this record.
A reissue was therefore more than necessary !

Recorded January 20 – 27, 1978

credits

released November 20, 2020

Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax – Mabumi Yamaguchi
Piano, Electric Piano – Ichiro Doi
Drums – Hideo Sekine
Bass – Ikuo Sakurai

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Le Tres Jazz Club Paris, France

FUZATI (Klub des Loosers) producer and die-hard crate digger has teamed up with MODULOR to launch Le Très Jazz Club. Label exclusively dedicated to vinyl reissue in jazz and groove.

discography

Sea Breeze

Jul 2021
Le Temps Fou

Jun 2021
Green Caterpillar

Nov 2020
Four Units

Nov 2020
Leeward

Nov 2020
Glass Flowers

Sep 2018

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