℗ 2018 BBE Music
| Released | July 27, 2018 |
| Duration | 47m 49s |
| Record Label | BBE Music |
| Catalogue No. | BBE469ADG |
| Genre | Jazz (Latin Jazz) |
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1.1
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Philosopher's Stone
Tohru Aizawa Quartet |
10:10 | |||
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1.2
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Sacrament
Tohru Aizawa Quartet |
11:23 | |||
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1.3
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La Fiesta
Tohru Aizawa Quartet |
9:59 | |||
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1.4
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Dead Letter
Tohru Aizawa Quartet |
10:11 | |||
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1.5
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Samba De Orfeu
Tohru Aizawa Quartet |
6:06 |
The Tohru Aizawa Quartet was a group made up of Japanese student musicians who never played a gig together and recorded only one album, Tachibana. The LP was recorded in 1975 and, until included on BBE’s recent J Jazz compilation, was unknown except to a small group of obsessive Japanese jazz collectors.
The Quartet was made up of four amateur musicians who were at university at the time. The recording session was financed by a local businessman, Ikujiroh Tachibana, who pressed up a few hundred vinyl copies to use as a business card. In the intervening 40 odd years since its recording, few copies have surfaced, making it an in-demand yet elusive artefact from the golden age of Japanese jazz. BBE Records are honoured to present a fully authorised reissue of this holy grail, licensed directly from the band themselves.
Tachibana has all the necessary components of a cult album: pressed in small numbers, a few mysterious and vague details about its origins, languishing in obscurity for decades and, above all, superb musical craftsmanship and skill. It can now be enjoyed by a new audience around the world.
44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM – BBE Music Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.39 -0.69 to 0.00 | -19.36 -21.11 to -18.20 | -16.54 -18.40 to -15.60 | 13 13 to 14 | |
| 1 | Philosopher's Stone | -0.06 | -19.32 | -16.5 | 13 |
| 2 | Sacrament | -0.61 | -18.82 | -16.1 | 13 |
| 3 | La Fiesta | -0.59 | -19.35 | -16.1 | 13 |
| 4 | Dead Letter | -0.69 | -21.11 | -18.4 | 14 |
| 5 | Samba De Orfeu | 0.00 | -18.20 | -15.6 | 13 |