Stop Over:

Description

Released at the height of the electric fusion era, ‘Stop Over’ is an all-acoustic hard bop killer, sounding like the Jazz Messengers on speed. When it was originally issued on the private Smile label in 1976, only 100 copies were pressed. Trumpeter Hideto Sasaki tears it up as if he’s Kenny Dorham on a classic late 50s Blue Note session. He also provides the breakneck title track to the album, the one stunning original that sits next to solid covers including Bobby Hutcherson’s modal classic ‘Little B’s Poem’ and Denny Zeitlin’s ‘Carole’s Garden’.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Carole’s Garden – Sasaki Hideto/Sekine Toshiyuki Quartet + 1
2. Soultrane – Sasaki Hideto/Sekine Toshiyuki Quartet + 1
3. Turquoise Twice – Sasaki Hideto/Sekine Toshiyuki Quartet + 1
Disc 2
1. Little B’s Poem – Sasaki Hideto/Sekine Toshiyuki Quartet + 1
2. Stop Over – Sasaki Hideto/Sekine Toshiyuki Quartet + 1