🇯🇵 JAPAN IMPORT, VINYL ONLY 🇯🇵 Suzuki, Isao Trio / Quartet - Blow Up

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● Japan import
● Label: Three Blind Mice / Sony Music Labels, Inc.
● Cat#: MHJL-322
● Remastered and cut by Bernie Grundman
● Original release completely reproduced as faithfully as possible
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official Three Blind Mice reissue. Original release date: 1973 (TBM-15)

*** VINYL ONLY RELEASE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO DIGITAL VERSION COMING WITH THIS RELEASE ***

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● Japan import
● Label: Three Blind Mice / Sony Music Labels, Inc.
● Cat#: MHJL-322
● Remastered and cut by Bernie Grundman
● Original release completely reproduced as faithfully as possible
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official Three Blind Mice reissue. Original release date: 1973 (TBM-15)
● Listen: youtu.be/AxQA22rEjzQ?si=_BtCtOMoZI77AvBq
● Check our WaJazz compilations at wajazz.bandcamp.com/merch !

*** VINYL ONLY RELEASE. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO DIGITAL VERSION COMING WITH THIS RELEASE ***

Enjoy the soulful melodies of Isao Suzuki, Art Blakey's esteemed bassist, as he, along with his fellow musicians Kunihiko Sugano on piano and George Otsuka on drums, brings his distinctive musical vision to life on this captivating album.

Recorded at Aoi Studio on March 29, 30, 1973.

Tracklist:

A1. Aqua Marine
A2. Everythings Happen To Me
A3. Blow Up

B1. Like It is
B2. I Can’t Get Started
B3. Low Flight

Personnel:

Art Direction – Tsutomu Nishizawa
Bass – Isao Suzuki, Takashi Mizuhashi (tracks: A1, A3, B2, B3)
Cello – Isao Suzuki (tracks: B2, B3)
Drums – George Otsuka
Recording Engineer – Yoshihiko Kannari
Executive Producer – A. Fukutomi, K. Saga, Y. Uozu
Liner Notes – Osamu Uchida, Shinichiro Nakayama, Teruo Isono
Piano / Fender – Kunihiko Sugano
Producer – Takeshi Fujii

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