Ayako Hosokawa With The Masaru Imada Quartet – No Tears

Masaru Imada is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer. He played jazz in student bands while a student at Meiji University, after which he worked in business for a year. He then decided to pursue music professionally. From 1953 he was part of clarinetist Eiji Kitamura's band. Imada had his own trio from 1964. He played internationally at jazz festivals from the 1970s. In the 1980s he worked in New York and Tokyo with Tom Browne, Grover Washington Jr. (Blue Marine), Randy Brecker, David Sanborn, Kazumi Watanabe, Will Lee, Steve Gadd and Guilherme Franco (A Day in the Paradise, 1983) as well as with their own formations. In 1984 he founded the fusion band Now’in.

Nice mix of work by John Lewis, including his score for No Sun In Venice, key work with the Modern Jazz Quartet/Sextet, and the one-off Modern Jazz Society album showcasing compositions by Lewis.

Ayako Hosokawa is a Japanese jazz singer and pianist.
She was the darling of Three Blind Mice Records. Her sweet and charming demeanor was perfectly matched to a honey-dripped alto and playful interpretations.
Accompanied by Toshiyuki Miyama's big band The New Herd , she recorded the album Call Me in 1979.