Takashi Mizuhashi - 1977 - One Tuesday In New York

Takashi Mizuhashi and his Friends

1977

One Tuesday In New York

01. Blues For Gon-San 8:25
02. Samba De Negrito 10:30
03. La Esmeralda 6:28
04. Reaching To The Sun 6:20
05. Cantaloupe Island 7:39

Bass – Takashi Mizuhashi
Bass – Teruo Nakamura
Drums – Bruno Carr
Piano, Electric Piano – Herbie Hancock

Recorded and Location: February 22, 1977,
A&R Recording Studio, New York City.

Takashi "Gon" Mizuhashi ( Japanese 水 橋 孝 , Mizuhashi Takashi ; born March 2, 1943 ) is a Japanese jazz musician ( double bass ).

Takashi Mizuhashi played in the Japanese jazz scene from the late 1960s; The first recordings were made with Chris Connor ( Softly and Swingin ' ), which he accompanied with Hideo Ichikawa , Shungo Sawada and George Otsuka at a studio session in Tokyo. In the following years he worked a. a. with Kimiko Kasai , Yuji Ohno , Masaru Imada , Kohsuke Mine , Isao Suzuki , George Otsuka, George Kawaguchi , Hideo Ichikawa, Shigeko Toya , Emiko Kai , Dave Burrell ( Lush Life, 1978), Shingo Okudaira , Yoshiaki Miyanoue , Hidehiko Matsumoto , Archie Shepp ( Tray of Silver , 1979) and Marion Brown .

Mizuhashi also worked with his own formations from the early 1970s. With his quartet (with Yoshio Otomo , Fumio Karashima , Hideo Sekine ) he recorded two LPs for Three Blind Mice and accompanied the singer Yoshiko Goto . 1977 Mizuhashi played with Herbie Hancock the album One Tuesday in New York ( Denon ), on which Teruo Nakamura and Bruno Carr also participated; it was the first production of the new Denon Jazz label. [1] On his albums Early Summer in Tokyo and Gon's Delight(Denon / Nippon Columbia) Horacee Arnold , Cecil Bridgewater , Archie Shepp and Mickey Tucker were involved in a session in Tokyo in 1978 . In 1989 he played again with Dave Burrell, with whom he recorded the duo album Plays Ellington & Monk (Denon). In the 90s he worked on the recordings of Takashi Miyazawa , Eri Kayama and Hioaki Panryu . In the field of jazz, the discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in 51 recording sessions between 1969 and 2012.

Japanese bassist Takashi Mizuhashi gathered with "his friends" in a studio in New York during an afternoon in February 1977 and laid down some great acoustic jazz tracks, players are Takashi Mizuhasi on bass, Teruo Nakamura on bass, Herbie Hancock on piano & electric piano and Bruno Carr on drums. The LP was released on Denon Records.