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Masarau Imada Trio + 2 - Green Caterpillar  TBM 39 1975 masaru imada : p/elp ;isoo fukui : b ;tetsujiro obara : d kazumi watanabe : g  yuji imamura : perc Isao Suzuki Quartet + 2 - Orang - Utan TBM 44 1975 isao suzuki : b, cello, ep  kenji mori : as, bcl, fl (1,2,4) kazumi watanabe : g  osamu kawakami : b shinji mori  :d  mari nakamoto : vo (2) Hiroshi Fukumara - Morning Flight TBM 19 1973 hiroshi fukumura : tb shigeharu mukai : tb hiroshi tamura p tsutomu okada : b shinji mori : d Here's three of the best from Three Blind Mice - Japan's premier jazz label - to wrap up the recent run on Japanese Jazz here at OIR. Huge thanks go out to Bongohito who provided all three of the high quality rips + artwork and session details for this post.Find them all in the comments. Respect and thanks to El Goog,Jazz Nekko,Wara Katsu,Taro Nombei,Vesper,Hoochie Coochie & Doyle C for keeping the Japanese Jazz fires burning. To be continued......

Takeo Moriyama Quartet for Union Japan from 1982. Takeo Moriyama - Drums ; Toshihiko Inoue - Tenor ; Mikinori Fujiwara - Tenor, Soprano ; Hideaki Mochizuki - Bass. More Jap pressure...Moriyama drives the two sax frontline through a couple of incendiary post bop slash and burn originals,a brief solo drum feature introed and outroed by Inoue and Fujiwara and - the pick of the bunch for me - the clipped blurting saxes and menacing rumble of "No More Apple". Tough. Soon come - a triple whammy from Three Blind Mice courtesy of Bongohito.