Fumio Itabashi Trio - 1976 - Toh

Fumio Itabashi Trio

1976

Toh

01. Alligator Dance 10:49

02. Good-Bye 9:14

03. Toh 19:53

Bass – Okada Tsutomu

Drums – Kusumoto Takuji

Piano – Itabashi Fumio

Recorded live at Daichi Seimei Hall, 1, March 1976

Sublime 70s work from pianist Fumio Itabashi, easily one of our favorite Japanese talents of the time – a pianist with a wonderful sense of rhythm and freedom at the same time – very much on display on this beautiful record! The tracks are long and flowing – full of feeling, and as lyrical at times as they are rhythmic – set up with perfect trio accompaniment that features Tsutomu Okada on bass and Takuji Kusimoto on drums – working with Fumio in this special sort of magic that's a bit hard to put in words, but which really demonstrates on record why this moment in Japanese jazz was such a special time!