Year : 1971
Label : Denon/Nippon Columbia
Genre : Jazz
Style : Soul Jazz, Soft Rock, Pop
Kaoru Iiyoshi, also known as Garo, is a japanese jazz pianist, organist, arranger & band leader of the pop-jazz band, The Wip (for War, Intelligence & Peace). This album reminds the work of French composer Serge Gainsbourg made on the Jane Birkin - Serge Gainsbourg album released in 1969, a Baroque pop album including Smooth Jazz, Bossa Nova, Easy Listening & Soft Rock, with beautiful strings arrangements in the same approach as the Verve recordings. Titles include pop covers from The Beatles (Eleanor Rigby, Ticket To Ride) or The Carpenters (We' ve Only Just Begun), the tribute "I Love Jobim", the Jazz standard "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", plus four original compositions from Garo, arranged by himself. "Soul Tripper" was included in the album reissue series of the Columbia Readymade collection, directed by Konishi Yasuharu from Pizzicato Five, and the title-track was selected in the "Midnight Tokyo" compilation released in 2000 (on the same label), also directed by Konishi.
