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KEY FEATURES

• Limited Edition
• The final part of Yamamoto's jazz trilogy
• 1xLP pressed on 180g Black Vinyl
• Bernie Grundman Mastering & Cutting
• Pressed at SMS Shizuoka Factory
• Initially released by renowned Japanese jazz label Three Blind Mice
• Originally released in 1975

RELEASE DESCRIPTION

Girl Talk completes the "trilogy" of great records that started with Midnight Sugar and Misty, Girl Talk solidified Tsuyoshi Yamamoto's reputation as Japan's premier jazz pianist. Though he would continue to tour and record for Takeshi "Tee" Fujii for more than a decade, Girl Talk became the pinnacle of his career. This trio of classic LPs together is a benchmark in Japanese jazz records in particular and recording engineering in general. As usual, master recordist Yoshihiko Kannari worked with Yamamoto, bassist Akira Daiyoshi, and drummer Tetsujiro Onaba at AOI Studios, Tokyo, which featured a tight, nicely baffled room. Kannari's recordings are prized for their immediacy and dynamic expressiveness, both traits exhibited on Girl Talk to startling effect. Like Midnight Sugar and Misty before it, Kannari's work on Girl Talk won him the prestigious Swing Journal Critic Poll "Jazz Disc" Engineering award in 1976.

TRACKLIST

1. Tsuioku
2. Girl Talk
3. Gone with the Wind
4. Take the "A" Train
5. I Loves You Porgy
6. Soshite Ima wa
7. Autumn in New York

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