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Essential jazz album among the influences of the future-jazz quartet Sleep Walker by trombonist Hiroshi Suzuki. Variation is a joint project including the legendary jazz drummer Masahiko Togashi featurig pianist Yuji Ohno, saxophonist Jun Suzuki and trumpeter Tetsuo Fushimi. Masahiko Togashi was a major figure alongside Masahiko Sato, Masayuki Takayanagi and Yosuke Yamashita in the blooming of free jazz in Japan in the late sixties whose Variation is one of the iconic masterpiece.

PERSONNEL:

• Tetsuo Fushimi - (trumpet)
• Hiroshi Suzuki - (trombone)
• Yuji Ohno - (piano)
• Jun Suzuki - (bass)
• Masahiko Togashi - (drums)

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Castle Cats
• A2. Variation

• SIDE B
• B1. Suzu No Uta
• B2. Alfie
• B3. Passion