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Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio Midnight Sugar on Limited Edition Gold CD from Impex Records
State-of-the-Art 24K HDCD-Encoded Gold CD Mastered by Kevin Gray
Few, if any, international audiophile jazz recordings have maintained the kind of deep and profound influence over techniques and even entire label repertoire as Three Blind Mice’s. The of-the-moment realism of Yoshihiko Kannari’srecordings and production aesthetic of producer and label head Takeshi “Tee” Fujii have been the benchmark to match. It is to their immense credit that Blow Up, Midnight Sugar and Misty have yet to be matched, even 40 years later.
Impex, who as Cisco Music has had a long association with Tee and Three Blind Mice, has finally made available these seminal recordings on their state-of-the-art 24K, HDCD-encoded Gold CD for this first time ever. Kevin Gray’s careful, unobtrusive mastering provides a near-analog like listening experience while you explore the deluxe book packaging with original photographs from the TBM archives and a new set of essays from NPR’s “Rhythm Planet” host Tom Schnabel.
The Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio’s Midnight Sugar was recorded on March 1, 1974 at Aoi Studio, Tokyo. On Midnight Sugar the Trio plays two of Tsuyoshi’s own blues improvisations followed by jazz ballads that became standards for the group. It earned the ‘Best Engineering Award’ and ‘Jazz Disc Award’ from Swing Journal in 1974. It is Yamamoto’s unmistakable skill and his jazz feeling which adds that certain touch of liveliness and spontaneity and makes Midnight Sugar a unique experience of the highest order.
Musicians:
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, piano
Isoo Fukui, bass
Tetsujiro Obara, drums
Features:
• 24k Gold CD from Impex Records
• HDCD-encoded
• Mastered by Kevin Gray
• Deluxe book packaging
• Original photographs from the TBM archives & new set of essays from NPR’s “Rhythm Planet” host Tom Schnabel
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio Midnight Sugar Track Listing:
1. Midnight Sugar
2. I’m A Fool To Want You
3. The Nearness of You
4. It Could Happen To You
5. Sweet Georgia Blues
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