Artist: George Otsuka Quintet
Album: Go On
Genre: Post-Bop
Label: Think! Records
Released: 1972/2013
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Go On (Ohno) - 8:56
- Castaly (Yamaguchi) - 8:46
- Space Drive (Yamaguchi) - 6:12
- Here's That Rainy Day (Van Heusen-Burke) - 7:03
- Isotope (Henderson) - 5:34
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- Personnel:
- George Otsuka - drums
- Shunzo Ohno - trumpet, flugelhorn
- Mabumi Yamaguchi - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Toshiyuki Daitoku - piano, electric piano
- Takashi Mizuhashi - bass
Go On was drummer George Otsuka's first album for the Three Blind Mice label. The established leader went into the famed Aoi Studio with his regular quintet at the time, featuring the young and brilliant trumpeter Shunzo Ohno and saxophonist Mabumi Yamaguchi.
The program opens with Ohno's original title track which vividly reminds us of the hard bop sound, with a hint of modal approach, of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers when Wayne Shorter was a member. The song is attractive, powerful and features a wonderful solo by Ohno who has beautiful tone and great technique. Yamaguchi burns on the saxophone in his own composition "Space Drive" and Joe Henderson's "Isotope." Overall, this is a very nice straight-ahead jazz album by a fantastic group.