Tsuyoshi Yamamoto - Misty

Limited Edition 45-rpm HQ-180g, limited pressing of 1,000 numbered editions (this one is s/n 400), 2-LP Set. Late night piano trio music at its finest! This album is a stoned cold killer. A reference material. You've got to have this one! "Best Engineering" Award, Jazz Dick Award of Swing Journal, 1974. Recorded at Aoi Studio, Toyko, on August 7, 1974.
Imagine listening to a piano trio, alone in the middle of the night as you sip your favorite drink. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio offers just such a mood. Yamamoto is highly musical and his expressions natural, neither overly technical nor overly serious, and his performance is relaxed and melodious. This album is his second, after the debut Midnight Sugar. The same closely-knit trio plays here, with Isao Fukui on bass and Tetsujiro Obara on drums.
Year: 1974
Lable: Three Blind Mice (Cisco) TBM-30-45, 2-LP Set
Style: Jazz
Country: Japan
Audio: 24bit-96kHz - Vinyl Rip, WAV
Size: 1.12 GB

About the Recording
This was one of Three Blind Mice’s most popular albums in its original incarnation back in ‘74. Now benefiting from a major makeover it has emerged re-vitalised and ready to take on many a modern upstart. With a brief from the labels founder Takeshi ‘Tee’ Fujii to make the sound ‘more clean, open and natural’, the album has been expertly re-mastered and re-cut by JVC’s Tohru Kotetsu as this double 45rpm set. Unlike so much audiophile material of the era this benefits from a truly gifted trio who demonstrate real jazz chops as they take on the standards and single ‘own’ composition that make up this seven number set.
It’s immediately obvious that an exceptional job has been done on the re-mastering. The weight and power of the piano, the dynamic range and percussive attack, are extraordinary. The band’s take on ‘Yesterdays’ gives true prominence to the double bass conveying all the subtleties of Isoo Fukui’s finger work. Side 4 opens with a delicate ‘I Didn’t Know What Time It Was’ and closes with one of my favourites here, ‘Angel Eyes’.

This was the first Three Blind Mice recording I ever heard, over 20 years ago. A fellow audiophile who went on to become sort of an audio guru for me (George Louis) played me this record to demonstrate his stereo. It had to be the most dynamic piano recording I had ever heard in my life. Yamamoto likes to tinkle the keys very softly, and then really pound them. And the Three Blind Mice engineers were able to capture both the quiet tinkling because of the Japanese vinyl, and the full on pounding because of the audiophile recording equipment they used. It was an ear-opening experience.

Musicians:
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, piano
Isoo Fukui, bass
Tetsujiro Obara, drums

Track Listing:
1. Misty
2. Blues
3. Yesterdays
4. Honey Suckle Rose
5. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
6. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
7. Angel Eyes
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