Jiro Inagaki & Norio Maeda - 1968 - This Is Jazz-Rock

Jiro Inagaki & The All-Stars, Norio Maeda

1968

This Is Jazz-Rock

01. Pata Pata

02. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

03. Day Tripper

04. Snap Shot

05. My Girl

06. Boom Boom

07. Watermelon Man

08. Barock

09. House Of The Rising Sun

10. Go Go A Go Go

11. Soul Finger

12. Here, There And Everywhere

Norio Maeda (org)

Jiro Inagaki (ts)

Kiyoshi Sugimoto (eg)

Tatsuro Takimoto (eb)

Tetsuo Fushimi (tp)

Takeshi Inomata (ds)

Osamu Nakajima (per).

Despite the fact that album is titled "Jazz-Rock", is rather a Soul Jazz album, in which Norio Maeda revisits various classics from Jazz to Pop by R&B, including cover songs of The Beatles (Day Tripper, \Here, There & Everywhere), The Barkays (Soul Finger), The Temptations (My Girl), John Lee Hooker (Boom Boom) or Herbie Hancock (Watermelon Man). Titles include also two original compositions by Maeda (Snap Shot, Go Go A Go Go), Inagaki (Barock) and the killer track "Pata Pata" by Miriam Makeba. Norio Maeda was a pianist in charge of various experimental jazz projects (Super-Tri-Piano, Revolution), composer of background music for TV shows, films and animated series (Crusher Joe). He was also a sought-after arranger collaborating in particular with Helen Merrill, Takeshi Inomata, Akira Miyazawa, Martha Miyake, the Tokyo-Cuban Boys, Toshiyuki Miyama & His New Herd or Akira Ishikawa's Count Buffalos. He evolved within several jazz formations in groups The West Liners, The Third or with his Wind-Breakers.