Year : 1973
Label : RCA
Serie : DYNAGROOVE
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Rock, World, Psychedelic Rock
"Rock Joint Cither" is the second part of an unfinished trilogy, an oriental-Jazz-Rock project including traditional eastern instruments, recorded by the Hiromasa Suzuki feat. Kunimitsu Inaba, Takeru Muraoka and sitar musician Yoko Uehara. Hiromasa 'Colgen' Suzuki was one of the greatest japanese jazz pianist, composer, arranger in demand for various prominent jazz groups whose he takes part, among others the Terumasa Hino Quintet, Akira Ishikawa's Count Buffalos, The Freedom Unity or the Jiro Inagaki's Soul Media. He was the founder member of the Colgen "backing" Band who supported, in particular, japanese songstress Mieko Hirota or Kimiko Kasai. He collaborated to several concept albums like "Electro Keyboard Orchestra" or "Pianic Pianism" within the Super Tri Piano jazz trio, all alongside Norio Maeda & Masahiko Sato. All compositions & arrangements by Hiromasa Suzuki.
MUSICIANS : Hiromasa Suzuki - piano & electric piano - Kunimitsu Inaba - bass - Hideo Sekine - drums - Yoko Uehara - sitar - Takeru Muraoka - tenor & soprano saxophone - Takehisa Suzuki - bugle - Tadataka Nakazawa - trombone - Yukio Eto - flute - Hiroshi Yoshinaga - oboe - Katsuyoshi Kurusawa - horn
