🇯🇵 JAPAN IMPORT, VINYL ONLY 🇯🇵 Ann Young & Yuji Ohno Trio – As Well Be Spring

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● Japan import
● Label: Nippon Columbia
● Cat#: HMJY-189
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official reissue. Original release date: 1975

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

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● Japan import
● Label: Nippon Columbia
● Cat#: HMJY-189
● Pressed and printed in Japan
● Official reissue. Original release date: 1975
● Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=odX13cf8g_Y
● Check our WaJazz compilations at wajazz.bandcamp.com/merch !

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

American club singer Ann Young’s first album was recorded when she came to Japan in 1975. Backed by a trio of Yuji Ohno (piano), Yoshio Ikeda (bass) and Yasuyoshi Okayama (drums), the As Well Be Spring album is a masterpiece that has been sought after for a long time both in Japan and overseas. Includes the “Speak Low” gem (A3)!

Words by Yusuke Ogawa (Universounds).

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Old Devil Moon
2. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Life?
3. Speak Low
4. It Might As Well Be Spring

Side B
1. Autumn In New York
2. There Is No Greater Love
3. Don't Explain
4. I Only Have Eyes For You

Personnel:

Bass – Yoshio Ikeda
Drums – Yasuyoshi Okayama
Piano – Yuji Ohno
Vocals – Ann Young

Recorded on 6,7 May 1975 at Nippon Columbia Studio.

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released February 1, 2024

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