Motohiko Hino - 2023 - Flying Clouds

Motohiko Hino 

2023

Flying Clouds

01. 流氷　
02. Olive’s Step
03. Flying Clouds

Bass – Nobuyoshi Ino
Drums – Motohiko Hino
Drums – Yuji Imamura
Guitar – Kazumi Watanabe
Tenor Saxophone – Mabumi Yamaguchi
Tenor Saxophone – Yasuaki Shimizu

Recorded at "5 Days in Jazz 1976" at Yamaha Hall, Tokyo on 27th May 1976.

never-issued live performance from the legendary Japanese drummer Motohiko Hino – recorded live in concert, originally by the Three Blind Mice label – yet a date that's a lot more freewheeling than most of the more familiar studio material from TBM! All the tracks are long, soaring, and searching – very spiritual in nature, and kicked off with long solo work from Hino, as he builds up energy and then welcomes in the rest of the group – a killer lineup that features two tenors, one in each channel – Mabumi Yamaguchi and Yasuaki Shimizu – plus nicely raw guitar work from Kazumi Watanabe, very different than his tighter albums of later years – as well as bass from Nobuyoshi Ino and percussion from Yuji Imamura.