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Oliver Nelson - Black, Brown and Beautiful (1970) {Flying Dutchman Japan CDSOL-45715 rel 2017}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 255 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 90 Mb | Artwork | 5% repair rar
© 1970, 2017 Flying Dutchman / Solid Records Japan | CDSOL-45715
Jazz / Post Bop / Modern Arrangement

At last! Oliver Nelson's signature album from his Flying Dutchman period is on CD, only 47 years after it's initial release on vinyl and cassette in 1970. The album was previously available as a compressed digital download, and certain tracks were released a couple years back by Ace Records as part of the compilation Liberation Music: Spiritual Jazz And The Art Of Protest On Flying Dutchman Records 1969-1974.

Takeshi Shibuya - Cook Note (1977) {2018 Octave Lab OTLCD2357}
FLAC (tracks) - 16bit/44.1kHz - Digital Download -> 259 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 101 Mb | Artwork | 5% repair rar
© 1977, 2018 Trio Records / Deep Jazz Reality / Octave Lab | OTLCD2357
Jazz / Post Bop / Contemporary Jazz / Piano

Takeshi Shibuya is a Japanese jazz pianist who also worked as a film composer. Takeshi Shibuya worked in the Tokyo jazz scene from the late 1960s a. a. with Nobuo Hara, with whom the first recordings were made in 1969/70. In the 1970s he played with Masayuki Takayanagi, Kunihiko Sugano and Shun Sakai, and he also arranged for the singer Ryoko Moriyama. In 1975 he made his debut album Dream, a live recording from Club Pannonica in Kagoshima with Tatsuhiro Matsumoto (bass) and Yoshitaka Uematsu or Sumiaki Matsushima (drums); 1977 followed the trio album Cook Note (Trio Records, with Tamio Kawabata, Shoichi Miyazawa), 1982 the solo album Shibyan !. From the 1980s he also accompanied the vocalists Maki Asakawa, Akira Sakata and Hideko Okiyama.