℗ 2019 BBE Music
| Released | November 8, 2019 |
| Duration | 44m 28s |
| Record Label | BBE Music |
| Catalogue No. | BBE579 |
| Genre | Jazz |
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1.1
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Animals Garden
Miyasaka + 5 |
10:25 | |||
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1.2
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Ballad for Mammoth
Miyasaka + 5 |
14:10 | |||
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1.3
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Dog's Dance
Miyasaka + 5 |
9:07 | |||
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1.4
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Pecker's Blues
Miyasaka + 5 |
10:46 |
The fifth release in the BBE Music J Jazz Masterclass Series has the perfect combination of rarity and exceptional musicality that inspires seasoned collectors to break out in a sweat. Animals Garden by Miyasaka + 5 was originally issued in 1979 on the cult private Japanese label ALM and is reissued for the first time in digital formats.
Animals Garden was a one-off project led by master drummer Takashi ‘Bear’ Miyasaka and features a powerful and progressive jazz group including saxophonist Koichi Matsukaze, whose Earth Mother album has also been reissued by BBE Music.
The four extended tracks on Animals Garden exemplify the high standard of playing and arranging that was a characteristic of jazz composed and recorded in Japan during the late 1970s. All four numbers were composed by Miyasaka and the album spans a range of styles, from febrile post-bop and head nodding modal, to deep funky blues and elegiac balladry. The title track was included on J Jazz Volume 2, but the three remaining cuts are equally enchanting.
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – BBE Music Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.11 -0.11 to -0.11 | -18.65 -21.74 to -16.51 | -15.45 -17.80 to -13.60 | 13 12 to 15 | |
| 1 | Animals Garden | -0.11 | -18.44 | -15.3 | 13 |
| 2 | Ballad for Mammoth | -0.11 | -21.74 | -17.8 | 15 |
| 3 | Dog's Dance | -0.11 | -17.91 | -15.1 | 13 |
| 4 | Pecker's Blues | -0.11 | -16.51 | -13.6 | 12 |