Artist: Takeo Moriyama Quartet
Album: Flush Up
Genre: Free Jazz, Modal
Label: Think! Records
Released: 1977/2013
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
01. Flush Up (Itabashi) - 18:11
02. Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise (Romberg-Hammerstein) - 14:59
03. Yellow Bear (Itabashi) - 8:10
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Personnel:
Takeo Moriyama - drums, percussion
Fumio Itabashi - piano
Tomoki Takahashi - tenor saxophone, sopranino saxophone
Hideaki Mochizuki - bass
Drummer Takeo Moriyama recorded a live album in 1977, 1 and 2 March at Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo, the first after the end work with the Yosuke Yamashita Trio.
"Flush Up" and "Yellow Bear" the original songs of Fumio Itabashi who played a musical staff at Takeo Moriyama Quartet during this period. The quartet consists of: drummer Takeo Moriyama, saxophonist Tomoki Takahashi, jazz pianist Fumio Itabashi and bass player Hideaki Mochizuki.
"FLUSH UP" is alongside "HUSH-A-BYE", LP where can fully enjoy the talented masterful performances based on the powerful druming of Moriyama full-length.
A masterpiece of Japanese spiritual jazz.