Max/Abbey Japanese Soundtrack

[JSngry]

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Kyonetsu No Kisetsu (Japanese paper sleeve edition)

Toshiro Mayuzumi with Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln

Add to Cart $39.99 ... CD

(€30.03 || £20.24 || ¥4699) (approx.)

CD (Item 455016) Think (Japan), 1960/1963 -- Condition: New Copy

A great jazz soundtrack from Japan -- half of it featuring work from an American combo led by Max Roach! The notes here are all in Japanese, so there's not as many details as we can decipher -- but we can tell you that the first disc in the set features 10 totally cooking sides from a group that features Max on drums, Clifford Jordan on tenor, Ronnie Matthews on piano, and Eddie Khan on bass -- plus a bit of added vocals from Abbey Lincoln! And although the work was used in a film, the sound is completely intense -- at a level that really blows away most of Max's other studio sessions from the time, with a searing, savage quality that most of his listeners on record wouldn't hear until the 70s! Roach's work on the drum kit is completely unbound -- rolling out with a heavy, propulsive energy on nearly every track -- and Jordan is incredible too, playing with a dynamism that's almost more like John Gilmore than his usual bag -- so much so that he's even screaming into the reed at one point. CD 2 features other jazz work from 1960 -- probably not from the same film, but we can't tell because of the Japanese text. The mode on these tracks is a bit more in the French new wave style of cinematic jazz -- shorter tracks, but with a nicely energetic style -- one that seeks to do a lot in a very small place, as piano, trumpet, and tenor compete quickly for space to state their case! Titles are all in Japanese, and that disc features 17 more titles. The package is great too -- kind of a fold-out one, with a poster inside!

About the movie itself:

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The Weird Love Makers

This Japanese melodrama warns of the dangers of the jazz age as it tells the story of a pickpocket and a streetwalker with a taste for tourist who live in an ultra cool jazz bar. The two do all right until another couple finks upon them and gets them sent to jail. While there, the two plot their weird revenge.

and

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Weird Love Makers [VHS] (1960)

A Tokyo pickpocket whose best friend is a prostitute tries to rip off the wrong person and finds himself in prison, where he makes friends with another convict. When they are released, the two men move in with the prostitute, but they're soon in the middle of all sorts of sordid situations. Directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Category: Foreign Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara

Too expensive for me, but does anybody know about this soundtrack or this movie? I mean, Max, Abbey, Clifford, & Eddie without that Coleridge Perkinson cat...WAY cool!

[JSngry]

Early, interventionist up.

[Dan Gould]

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Too expensive for me, but does anybody know about this soundtrack or this movie?

I was thinking, WTF until I clicked on the link. I've never seen a Japanese CD that high at the Groove.

I'm not sure what sounds more wild - the soundtrack or the film.

[Stefan Wood]

Damn that looks good! But it is too rich for me......

[JSngry]

Well, the blurb implies that it's a 2CD set, so that explains the price.

Still too much for me at this juncture, but DAMN!

[JSngry]

I got to hear the Max portion of this side, and...yeah. Wow. Intense. Lots of workouts on "Six Bits Blues" in numerous permutaions as well as a few other things. Definitely not a "well produced" studio album, but still...

If you're a fan of any/all of Roach, Lincoln, and/or Jordan, it's hard for me not to call this "essential" even though it's neither a "formal" album nor a live recording. That's how good the playing is.

Currrently/temporarily(hopefully) out of stock at DG, but added to may want list.

Dammit. I do not want to spend this much money. But it is that good, and I've heard a copy. So now I'm obligated.

[brownie]

Now, JimS has got me interested in this item.

Saw the Max Roach unit with Abbey Lincoln when they performed in Paris in 1964.

The concert had left me underwhelmed!

[Rooster_Ties]

This came up for me, searching for something else. Jim, did you ever got this?? Or anybody else?

Sounds very interesting indeed (at least on paper).

[JSngry]

Never came back in stock, to my knowledge.

[jlhoots]

I bought it. I'm glad I did.