Year : 2007
Label : VAP
Genre : Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style : Jazz Funk, Smooth Jazz
One of the finest Yuji Ohno productions from the last years, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the "Lupin The 3rd Part II" serie TV birth, in a 19th annual Lupin TV Special broadcast episode. Yuji Ohno & his young new group "Lupintic Five", formed in 2006, perform crossover jazz in the same approach as the CTI recordings from the seventies, including beautiful arrangements for strings, Funk/Soul elements (Opus 4, 5 & 8), Smooth Jazz (Iseka's Theme, Elusive Memory At The Kiritappu) and Cool Jazz (Opus 3, La Valse Froide). The band is also supported by various guests musicians featuring flutist Masami Nakagawa, former member of the Masahiko Togashi Quartet & the Gil Evans Orchestra, Kiyoshi Yoshida (synthesizer), Hajime Ueshiba (whistle), Tatuya Nishiwaki (harmonica) and J-Pop songstress Miki Imai on "Love Theme" song.
LUPINTIC FIVE : Yuji Ohno - keyboards - Satoshi Izumi - guitar - Masayuki Tawarayama - wood bass, electric bass - Keiji Matsushima - trumpet - Hisatsugu Suzuki - soprano & tenor sax - Yoshihito Eto - drums
TRACKLIST : Opus 1 - Iseka's Theme - Opus 2 - Theme From Lupin The Third 'Ice blue' Version - Opus 3 - Opus 4 - Opus 5 - Opus 6 - Elusive Memory At The Kiritappu - Opus 7 - La Valse Froide - Opus 8 - Opus 9 - Theme From Lupin III 'Elusive' Version - Love Theme Feat. Miki Imai
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