Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd - Gallery

2021 reissue

Tracklist
    Flower Arrangement    5:26
    Art Gallery    5:26
    A Falling Star    5:35
        Blue Sail    5:29
    Yaah!    6:55
    Grand Guignol    7:04
    Fancy Ball    9:10

Credits:

    Alto Saxophone, Clarinet – Kazumi Oguro, Shinji Nakayama
    Baritone Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Haruomi Ishimatsu
    Bass – Yasuhiko Tachibana
    Composed By, Arranged By – Kozaburo Yamaki
    Drums – Yoshio Nakamura
    Electric Piano, Piano – Kiyoshi Takano
    Guest, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Katsumi Odagiri
    Guest, Trumpet – Hideo Kamimura
    Guitar – Kozaburo Yamaki
    Leader, Conductor – Toshiyuki Miyama
    Orchestra – Toshiyuki Miyama & The New Herd
    Supervised By [Reissue Supervision] – 塙耕記*
    Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Junichi Kameoka, Norio Moriguchi
    Trombone – Kenichi Tsunoda, Ryohei Imai, Takeo Arai, Teruhiko Kataoka
    Trumpet – Koichi Ono, Masanobu Takei, Natsuki Tamura, Shigeru Kamimori

Recorded June 18 to 20, 1979.

from NYT 1975

TOKYO, June 30—Miyama and His New Herd, which brings a combination of the essence of jazz and traditional Japanese music and culture to the Newport Jazz Festival in New York tonight, is one of several major jazz bands in Japan.

The New Herd, led by its founder and director, Toshiyuki Miyama, enthralled a large American audience with its performances and was given a standing ovation when it made its United States debut at the Monterey Jazz Festival in California last fall.

Mr. Miyama, who was born in Chiba, south of Tokyo, in 1921, has been a jazz buff since he was a teenager. When he was 17 he was playing the clarinet and the saxophone in a Japanese Navy band on the flagship of the Japanese combined fleet.

In 1950 Mr. Miyama organized a combo, the Jive Aces, to satisfy a growing popular thirst for jazz. As his reputation rose and fans increased in number, he expanded the Jive Aces into an 18‐member New Herd in 1958. He then gave up clarinet and saxophone in favor of a baton.

Most of his work is now on television and radio and in concerts. A regular TV show on which Miyama and His New Herd appears is “Sound in ‘S’,” a weekly musical program featuring a guest singer, including visiting stars, as well as three regular Japanese singers.

There are about 100 jazz hands in Japan. Most are small groups; fewer than 10 are big and have major reputations, such as the New Herd and Sharps and Flats.

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/01/archives/miyamas-herd-and-jazz-in-japan.html