 | First Deserter by Kazutoki Umezu
Buy used from: $16.21 My fave Umezu (alto) w. Tom Cora, M. Ribot, and Samm Bennett - read my review
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 | Gazelle by Scenic Zone
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $15.51 Great disc by altoist Akira Sakata (Bill Laswell collaborator) -- ECM-like, but passionate
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 | Sokana by Hiroaki Katayama
Buy used from: $148.89 The only Hiroaki Katayama disc I can find -- big guy, tenor saxman, cool.
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 | Mix Dynamite by Fumio Itabashi
Buy used from: $35.65 More cool Umezu with wild pianist Fumi Itabashi, recorded live at Tokyo's Body and Soul
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 | Passionate Age by Keizo Inoue
Buy used from: $95.15 Live @ the Shinjuku Pit Inn w. Akira Sakata - big vibrant and real, by the late Inoue
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 | Plays Standards by Ground Zero
Yoshihide Otomo's wackiest, most lovable and playful disc - check the samples!
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 | Eclecticism by Kazutoki Umezu
Buy used from: $16.90 Raunchier than FIRST DESERTER (but less varied/complex), another cool Dr. Umezu disc!
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 | United Future Organization by United Future Organization
Buy used from: $6.89 slick 70's recidivism: playful urban hipster stuff, non-free, but kinda fun
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 | An Unclear Trial: More Than This by Keiji Haino
Buy used from: $19.99 Haino Keiji's jazziest (?) disc with Greg Cohen and Joey Baron of Masada
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 | Flutter by Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.00 Otomo does straightforward free jazz (with a little sine wave thrown in)
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 | Wake Up with the Birds by Carlos Actis Dato
Buy used from: $15.30 I ain't heard this yet -- buy it and send it to me in gratitude for this list!
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 | Eight Eyes & Eight Ears by Doctor Umezu Band
Buy used from: $46.36 Zorn reference in song title (Dekoboko - Zorn's alias on his Eye collab) - send me this one, too!
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 | Heretic, Jeux des Dames Cruelles by Naked City
Buy used from: $9.26 Eye's gibbering to Zorn's smooth playing on "7000 frogs" -- a minor masterpiece
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