Nobuo Hara And His Sharps & Flats - Active Volcano

2021 reissue

Nobuo Hara and his excellent Sharps & Flats ensemble – a group who were to the Japanese scene of the 70s what the Clark Boland Big Band was to the European one.

Tracklist:
Active Volcano    
White Heron
Ondo
South Wind    
Sharp Curve    

Credits:

    Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet – Hajime Maekawa
    Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Koji Suzuki (4)
    Arranged By – Takashi Shikata
    Baritone Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Nobuyuki Morikawa
    Bass – Junichi Kobayashi (2)
    Directed By [Sound Director] – Mitsugu Kobayashi
    Drums – Yoshiyuki Nakamura
    Guitar – Kazuhiko Kawakami
    Leader, Conductor, Tenor Saxophone – Nobuo Hara
    Piano, Electric Piano – Takeshi Kamachi
    Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Yosuke Tohnoki*
    Trombone – Tatsuro Matsubayashi*, Yoshitaka Hanasaka
    Trombone, Bass Trombone – Shigeru Kawashima
    Trombone, Valve Trombone – Kenji Nishiyama
    Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Hiroshi Kikuchi (3), Hiroshi Sanami*, Shuzo Morikawa, Tomoya Haneo

    Producer – Takeshi "Tee" Fujii*
    Art Direction – Ben Nishizawa
    Engineer [Cutting] – Shizuo Nomiyama
    Engineer [Recording] – Yoshihiko Kannari

Recorded June 25, 26 & 27, 1979 at Yamaha Epicurus Studio, Tokyo.