Hideto Sasaki & Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet

• Limited Edition Digisleeve CD.

• Includes New notes, translated original sleeve notes, and an interview with Toshiyuki Sekine.

BBE Music presents the sixth release in its acclaimed J Jazz Masterclass Series: ‘Stop Over’ by Hideto Sasaki – Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet +1. Released at the height of the electric fusion era, ‘Stop Over’ is an all-acoustic hard bop killer, sounding like the Jazz Messengers on speed. When it was originally issued on the private Smile label in 1976, only 100 copies were pressed, making ‘Stop Over’ one of the most sought after and rare LPs in the J Jazz canon.

Trumpeter Hideto Sasaki tears it up as if he’s Kenny Dorham on a classic late 50s Blue Note session. He also provides the breakneck title track to the album, the one stunning original that sits next to solid covers including Bobby Hutcherson’s modal classic ‘Little B’s Poem’ and Denny Zeitlin’s ‘Carole’s Garden’. Pianist Toshiyuki Sekine is also on top form with his deft touch and fluid keyboard runs, playing Horace Silver to Sasaki’s Dorham. If you dig that late 50s/early 60s breathless hard bop sound, you’ll love this.

PERSONNEL:

• Trumpet – Hideto Sasaki
• Alto Saxophone – Noriyasu Watanabe
• Bass – Kei Narita
• Drums – Takashi Kurosaki
• Piano – Toshiyuki Sekine

TRACKS:

• 01. Carole’s Garden
• 02. Soultrane
• 03. Turquoise Twice
• 04. Little B’s Poem
• 05. Stop Over