Showing posts with label Akira Miyazawa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Akira Miyazawa. Show all posts

16 March 2019

MIYAZAWA AKIRA QUARTET ‎– KISO (VICTOR WORLD GROUP, 1970)



A.  Kiso

B1. Asama
B2. Hakuba
B3. Hida


Yasuo Arakawa, bass
Takeo Moriyama, drums
Masahiko Sato, piano
Akira Miyazawa, tenor saxophone


Recorded at Nippon Victor No. 2 Studio, Tokyo, March 17, 1970

VICTOR WORLD GROUP ‎– SMJX-10090

LP Rip

10 September 2018

VARIOUS "AFRICA KARA AFRICA / GENBAKU SHOUKEI = アフリカからアフリカへ / 原爆小景" (HEm, 1974)





Here is some info by our donator mvns about this LP: "...It's part 10 of 11 educational LPs meant to accompany an elementary school-level music textbook. Side A contains a sidelong track composed by Masahiko Satoh that depicts a journey through the history of jazz. It features a lot of J-jazz heavyweights. Side B is an unsettling choral work by the renowned Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus about the nuclear bomb."


 Side A:
Akira Miyazawa (saxophone)
Norio Maeda (piano)
Masanaga Harada (bass)
Jimmy Takeuchi (drums)
Kenichi Sonoda and Dixie Kings
George Otsuka Quintet
Masahiko Satoh's Garandoh [Hozumi Tanaka, Keiki Midorikawa, Masahiko Satoh]
Side B: 
Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus
A.  ジャズの歴史
B1. 水ヲ下サイ
B2. 日ノ暮レチカク
B3. 夜

HEm ‎– H-201 (Japan, 1974)
[vinyl rip]

14 January 2015

ISAO SUZUKI ‎– THREE CUSHION (PADDLE WHEEL, 1981)





A1. Perhaps
A2. Moritat
A3. Together Again

B1. Three-Cushion
B2. You Don't Know What Love Is
B3. Sandy


Isao Suzuki, bass
Motohiko Hino, drums
Yoshiaki Miyanoue, guitar
Ichiro Doi, piano
Akira Miyazawa, tenor saxophone
Tadanori Konakawa, trombone


Recorded at King Studio 2, Tokyo, on 6 May 1981

Paddle Wheel ‎– K28P-6119

LP Rip

10 January 2015

NORIO MAEDA - SAXOPHONE UNITY (COLUMBIA, 1967)





A1. Take 5
A2. 'Round About Midight
A3. Oleo
A4. Night In Phirygia

B1. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
B2. What Is This Thing Called Love?
B4. On Green Dolphin Street
B4. Dead Heat


Norio Maeda, piano, arranger
Akira Miyazawa, tenor saxophone, flute
Shigeo Suzuki, alto saxophone, flute
Akitoshi Igrarashi, alto saxophone
Konosuke Saijo, tenor saxophone
Ichiro Mimori, tenor saxophone
Horoshi Okazaki, baritone saxophone
Takeshi Inomata, drums
Tatsuro Takimoto, bass


Columbia - Takt Jazz Series - XMS-10031-CT

LP Rip

20 September 2014

MAL WALDRON ‎– IN RETROSPECT (BAYBRIDGE RECORDS, 1982)



1. All Alone
2. Oleo
3. Blue Monk
4. I Can't Get Started
5. Straight No Chaser


Isao Suzuki, bass
Hironobu Fuzisawa, drums
Mal Waldron, piano
Akira Miyazawa, tenor saxophone, flute


Recorded at the Teichiku Kaikan Studio, April 23rd 1982.

Baybridge Records ‎– TECW-20694, 1998 (originally on LP KUX-172)

CD Rip

22 May 2014

AKIRA MIYAZAWA QUARTET - SEA HORSE (Pony Canyon, 2002)





1. Green Dolphin Street
2. In A Sentimental Mood
3. Poor Butterfly
4. Baby Sea Horse
5. Stardust
6. Tenor Madness
7. I Can't Get Started
8. Take The A Train
9. If Ever I Would Leave You


Akira Miyazawa, tenor sax
Harumi Takeuchi, piano
Shunsuke Takeuchi, bass
Masahiko Ozu, drums

Recorded on 21 December 1989 at the Grand Hotel, Hammamatsu

Pony Canyon - M & I - MYCJ-30145

CD Rip


19 May 2014

AKIRA MIYAZAWA - NOYURI (EASTWORLD, 1992)






1. 野百合 / 作曲:宮澤昭
2. 12+2 / 作曲:宮澤昭
3. 秋意 / 作曲:渋谷毅
4. Beyond the flames / 作曲:渋谷毅
5. Sea horse / 作曲:宮澤昭
6. 浜名湖 / 作曲:宮澤昭
7. Water beetle / 作曲:宮澤昭
8. Dozing blues / 作曲:宮澤昭



Akira Miyazawa, tenor saxophone
Takeshi Shibuya, piano, organ


Recorded 5-6 December 1991

Eastworld - TOCT-6631

CD Rip



31 October 2012

AKIRA MIYAZAWA “NIJIMASU” (TAKT, 1970)




Really didn't know about this EP - thank you Nick!



AKIRA MIYAZAWA “NIJIMASU” (TAKT, 1970)


Akira Miyazawa,  tenor sax
Yasuo Arakawa, double bass
Masahiko Togashi, drums
Masahiko Sato, piano

A. Nijimasu (1)

B. Nijimasu (2)


TAKT “The Essence of Jazz” Series - 7” EP - YSS-10048-CT

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