Song For Hope

BBE Music welcomes pianist Aki Takase to the J Jazz Masterclass reissue series, with her 1982 live album ?Song for Hope?. A musician of poise and precision who has been a noted composer, performer and recording artist for over 40 years, Takase?s ?Song for Hope? continues BBE Music?s exploration of Japanese modern jazz from a golden period spanning the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. The ?Song for Hope? album is taken from a recording of Takase?s debut European performance taped in November 1981 at the Berlin Jazz Festival and was originally issued in 1982 by Enja Records, a key European jazz label founded in Munich 1971 by Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber. On Enja, Takase found herself labelmates with some of the world?s leading jazz pianists like Mal Waldron, Dollar Brand and Randy Weston, and she followed in the footsteps of other leading Japanese artists on the label such as Terumasa Hino and Yosuke Yamashita. The hypnotic title track was included on J Jazz vol. 3, and it features J Jazz stalwart Takeo Moriyama on drums, joined by Nobuyoshi Ino on bass. Moriyama?s career has been well documented on J Jazz vol. 1, and his sublime ?East Plants? album was reissued as part of the J Jazz Masterclass Series. Bassist Ino has been an active member of the Japanese jazz scene since the mid-1970s and has performed and recorded with many leading artists and groups including Fumio Itabashi, Masahiko Togashi, Hiromasa Suzuki, Masaru Imada and Masayuki Takayanagi. Aki Takase was born

Tracks

1~1~Monologue
1~2~Song For Hope
2~1~Minerva's Owl
2~2~Mountain Forest

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Takase, Aki Trio
Release Date: 05 April 2024
Genre: Jazz
Label: BBE MUSIC
Distributor: Rocket Group