Hidefumi Toki Quartet – 1975 - Toki

Hidefumi Toki Quartet

1975 

Toki

01. Lullabye For The Girl 11:10

02. Darkness 10:03

03. Blues 8:17

04. When Sunny Gets Blue 5:39

05. Old Song Blues 5:40

Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Hidefumi Toki

Bass – Nobuyoshi Ino

Drums – Steve Jackson

Guitar – Kazumi Watanabe

Producer – Takeshi Fujii

Recorded May 17, 1975 at AOI Studio, Tokyo.

Deeply personal work from Japanese saxophonist Hidefumi Toki – a player who manages accomplish a great deal in a fairly stripped down setting – filling spare space with gentle notes on alto and soprano sax, often delivered with a nicely raspy tone! The group here is a quartet – with Kazumi Watanabe on guitar, Nobuyoshi Ino on bass, and Steve Jackson on drums – and the setting is laidback and mellow, often moving at a pace that's slow, but always flowing with a great gentle swing.