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Artist:	POLY BREATH PERCUSSION BAND
Title:	P.B.2 Live
Label:	PSF (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	PSF 092CD

"Recording of the debut gig by the Poly Breath Percussion Band (aka P.B.2) at the Tokyo Pit Inn in April 1997. Dynamic percussionist Shoji Hano has made a name for himself through several self-released albums, and his work with Peter Brotzmann. However the real revelation here is the 75-year old altoist, Keizo Inoue. Despite having played and taught on the Japanese jazz scene for over 50 years (his pupils include Akira Sakata) and having appeared at the Moers Festival, Inoue has remained a marginal figure in the history of free music. This disk reveals him to be a thoughtful and inventive free player on both alto and clarinet. Soundwise, P.B.2 suggest a more rhythmically complex Last Exit, with Tetsu Yamauchi's heavily-effects altered electric bass providing a lot of tonal interest. Inoue knows just when to step back to give the percussionists the space they need to take off into torrents and whirlpools of pulsating rhythmic heat. A rare antidote to the acres of tedium that are usually taken to represent Japanese jazz."

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