Yoshimi Ueno - 1980 - Sea Sound

Yoshimi Ueno 

1980 

Sea Sound

01. Sea Sound 10:27
02. Tsuchi Ningyo 6:26
03. My Spirit 5:50
04. Skip 8:01
05. K. Bluse 6:21
06. Uzushio 6:16

Bass – Eiji Aizawa, Eiji Nakayama
Drums – Yoshimi Ueno
Electric Guitar – Sadao Nishiwaki
Guitar, Electric Guitar – Masato Okubo
Piano – Keisaku Takahashi
Tenor Saxophone – Yasuaki Shimizu

A laidback Japanese jazz set from the start of the 80s -- filled with warm piano lines, gentle guitar grooves, and some nice moments on tenor! There's a great mellow feel to the record -- a quality that's different than other records we've heard of this vintage -- still some of the soaring lyricism of the Japanese piano scene, but with a more spacious, contemplative feel overall -- one that really gives the record a lot of depth. The core group is a quintet -- with tenor, guitar, piano, bass, and drums -- and there's some guest guitar and bass on a few tracks.