Masami Nakagawa
Touch of Spring
JVC (Japan) 1988
VIJ-28149 (LP) w/obi, insert.
sleeve : NM
media : EX+/EX+(some slightly noise.)
An album released in 1988 by Japanese flutist Shozo Nakagawa, an artist whose work spans classical, contemporary music, and jazz, and who has delivered standout performances in free-improvised sessions with Warren Smith as well as on Kuniyasu Yamamoto’s celebrated The Four Seasons of Japan. Featuring Masahiko Sato (acoustic piano, synth), Ikuo Sakurai (bass), Yosuke Inoue (bass), and Hideo Yamaki (drums). Highlights include B2, a beautifully floating and gentle ensemble interpretation of works by Neapolitan opera composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, regarded as one of the earliest figures of the Classical style, and B3, a tropical-oriented arrangement of a flute and piano piece with basso continuo by medieval Belgian composer François-Joseph Gossec. The album also presents classical repertoire by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Liszt, and others, elegantly and lightly reimagined for jazz ensemble by Masahiko Sato. Among the selections, B4—a boldly authentic jazz transformation of a work by 20th-century French composer Jacques Ibert—comes especially recommended.
B2: Siciliano for Flute and Guitar
B3: Tambourin
B4: Intermezzo for Flute and Guitar