MATRIX

MATRIX

菊地雅章セクステット

Masabumi Kikuchi Sextet

Alto Saxophone – Hideyuki Kikuchi (菊地 秀行)
Bass – Hironori Takiya (滝谷 裕典)
Drums – Takahiro Suzuki (鈴木 孝廣)
Piano – Masabumi Kikuchi (菊地 雅章)
Tenor Saxophone – Akio Nishimura (西村 昭夫)
Trumpet – Tetsuo Fushimi (伏見 哲夫)

超激レア!!

Esteemed pianist Masabumi Kikuchi enjoyed a long and illustrious career in jazz that encompassed many forms. After playing in Lionel Hampton’s Japanese touring band, he played on five Sadao Watanabe albums in mid-1960s and backed Sonny Rollins before studying at the Berklee College of Music. Matrix was the first of five albums recorded with his Sextet and is rightly rated one of the greatest of his entire career, the album mixing well-executed covers of songs by Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Watanabe, and the Black Orpheus theme with the enthralling originals ‘Little Aby’ and ‘In Fourth Way’.

Victor World Group – SMJX-10078
LP | Japan | 1969
Original Pressing

  • Written by
    Chick Corea

  • Written by
    Masabumi Kikuchi (菊地 雅章)

  • Written by
    Bronislau Kaper
    Ned Washington

  • Written by
    Sadao Watanabe (渡辺 貞夫)

  • Written by
    Masabumi Kikuchi (菊地 雅章)

  • Written by
    George Weiss
    Hugo Peretti
    Luigi Creatore
    Louis Bonfa

菊地雅章による69年リリースのデヴュー

THE DEBUT ALBUM OF MASABUMI KIKUCHI RELEASED IN 1969