Masayuki "Jojo" Takayanagi Second Concept - Cool Jojo (Japanese edition)
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Masayuki Takayanagi – guitar
Kenji Kohsei – piano, electric piano
Nobuyoshi Ino – bass
Yasuhiro Yamazaki – drums
1 LP, standard sleeve with OBI strip and insert
Limited edition – Japanese import
Remastering & cutting by Mixer's Lab (Warner Music Mastering)
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Label : Sony Music Japan
Original Label : Three Blind Mice
Recorded December 3-5, 1979 at Epicurus Studio, Tokyo
Engineered by Yoshihiko Kannari
Produced by Takeshi Fujii
Originally released in 1980
Reissued in June 2026
Tracks:
Side A :
- Froggy Day
- These Things
- Hi Beck
- Palo Alto
Side B :
- 317 East 32nd
- Subconscious Lee
- My New Flame
- Lennie's Pennies
Reviews:
2026 Repress. Recorded over three December days in 1979 at Epicurus Studio in Tokyo and issued the following year, Cool Jojo documents a side of Masayuki "Jojo" Takayanagi that sits at considerable remove from the noise-as-method work he was simultaneously pursuing with the New Direction Unit. The guitarist's Second Concept was his vehicle for an explicit return to the Tristano school — the lineage he had absorbed as a young player in postwar Tokyo and never fully set aside — and the programme makes the allegiance unambiguous: three pieces from the Lee Konitz book (Hi Beck, Palo Alto, Subconscious Lee), two from Lennie Tristano (317 East 32nd, Lennie's Pennies), a reading of Kenny Ball's Froggy Day, and a pair of Takayanagi originals (These Things, My New Flame).
With Kenji Kohsei on piano and electric piano, Nobuyoshi Ino on bass and Yasuhiro Yamazaki on drums, Takayanagi pursues the long-line, harmonically extended phrasing that defined the Tristano circle — clean tone, contrapuntal alertness, an insistence on melodic logic over rhetorical heat. Heard against his concurrent free work, the record reads less as retreat than as method study: a player demonstrating that the discipline he was dismantling elsewhere remained intact at the source.
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.89 / 5