Super Audio CD version with digital remaster: Japan issue
Booklet in English, but an insert in Japanese, titles and credits are translated in Japanese.
Recorded on September 15, 1957.

Bass – Paul Chambers
Design [Cover] – Reid Miles
Drums – "Philly" Joe Jones
Photography By – Francis Wolff
Piano – Kenny Drew
Producer – Alfred Lion
Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder
Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane
Trombone – Curtis Fuller
Trumpet – Lee Morgan

Kiefer is a constant in Mndsgn’s live trio, has shared the stage with Moses Sumney and Terrace Martin, and has lent production talents to the likes of Kaytranada and Anderson .Paak. He began playing piano as a child and producing beats at around age twelve, moving from San Diego to L.A. to study under renowned jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell at UCLA’s Jazz Studies program. There, he started thinking about the synergy between the jazz piano he studied and the beats he created outside of school. While his peers were performing over live instrumentation, Kiefer produced electronic beats free from sampled melodies or drum breaks. He released his debut album Kickinit Alone on Leaving Records last year, earning a Best Jazz Album nomination from A2IM.



Whereas Kiefer describes Kickinit Alone as “90% focused on all types of sadness”, Happysad is more complex. He says it’s “my emotional journal of the last year. I struggle emotionally a lot, and yet I feel pretty damn good much of the time. This album is focused on both joy and sadness, and how they are always intertwined.” The track titles are deliberately left open to interpretation; opening on a confident, blissful note, then segueing into a more dynamic mood before entering a deeper, darker and more ethereal place.



Inspirations for Happysad and Kiefer’s music in general include jazz titans Herbie Hancock and Bill Evans, as well as label mates Karriem Riggins and Knxwledge. “I've loved the sense of responsibility that comes with being a jazz musician,” he says, “The responsibility to study and understand its history, to respect the discipline of an instrument, and to dedicate your career to positively changing the direction of the music.”

Recorded in New York, December 24, 1954 • Digitally Remastered 2020
MILES DAVIS and the Modern Jazz Giants
Miles Davis - trumpet
Milt Jackson - vibraphone
Thelonious Monk - piano
Percy Heath - bass
Kenny Clarke - drums

CBSソニー移籍第一作である。前作「森羅万象」ではヴォーカルまで担当し、マルチ・ミュージシャン的色彩が見られたが、今作は従来のスタイルに戻り、ギターの松本正嗣(亭主)と共にキーボード中心のライト・フュージョンを創り出している。

Remastered CD and MiniDisc reissue of the album.

Heavy Weather is the seventh album by Weather Report, released in 1977 through Columbia Records. By 1991, the release had sold 1,000,000 copies in the US alone; it would prove to be the band's most commercially successful album and one of the best sellers in the Columbia jazz catalog. DownBeat magazine gave Heavy Weather a five-star review, and later its readers voted it jazz album of the year.

The lineup for the album consisted of Weather Report founders Joe Zawinul (keyboards, synthesizers) and Wayne Shorter (saxophone), alongside Jaco Pastorius (bass), Alex Acuña (drums), and Manolo Badrena (percussion). It was produced and orchestrated by Zawinul, with additional production by Shorter and Pastorius, and engineered by Ron Malo.


Manufactured By – Columbia Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Copyright © – Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Recorded At – Devonshire Studios
Mastered At – Sony Music Studios, New York City

A&R [Columbia Jazz Reissue Series] – Kevin Gore, Steve Berkowitz
Art Direction [Reissue Art Direction] – Howard Fritzson
Co-producer – Jaco Pastorius
Coordinator [A&R Coordination] – Patti Matheny
Coordinator [Project Director] – Seth Rothstein
Design – Nancy Donald
Design [Reissue Design] – Randall Martin
Engineer – Ron Malo
Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Brian Risner, Jerry Hudgins
Illustration – Lou Beach
Liner Notes [July 1997] – John Ephland
Management [Packaging Manager] – Nicholas Bennett
Mastered By [Digitally Mastered By] – Mark Wilder
Other [Chief Meteorologist] – Brian Risner
Photography By – Keith Williams*
Photography By [Liner Photography] – Don Hunstein
Photography By [Page 4] – Sony Music Archives
Producer [Assistant Producer] – Wayne Shorter
Producer [Original Producer], Orchestrated By [Orchestrator] – Joe Zawinul
Producer [Production Assistance] – Rene Arsenault
Reissue Producer [Produced For Reissue By] – Bob Belden

© 1997 Sony Music Entertainment Inc./ ℗ 1977 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Disc(s) made in Germany. Packaged in USA.

Chet Baker Sings is the debut vocal album by jazz musician Chet Baker
Chet Baker - vocals, trumpet
Russ Freeman - piano, celesta
Carson Smith - double bass
Joe Mondragon - double bass
Bob Neel - drums
Jimmy Bond - double bass
Lawrence Marable - drums
Peter Littman - drums
Richard Bock – producer
Gerald Heard – liner notes
William Claxton – photography

这张US3的《Hand On The Torch》，其实作为著名的酸性爵士乐团只有“Cantaloop”、“Come On Everybody”两首代表歌曲，巧合的是分别都是专辑的第一首歌。有着相同的节拍和MC，但相比较而言在此张专辑中的“Cantaloop”更为世人耳熟能详，特别是其中“Monkey…Monkey”的MC比较有意思。乐队的灵魂人物Geoff Wilkinson曾为许多乐队和艺人制作Remix，更是英国著名Pub的首席Dj，对于爵士乐谜来说Bluenote唱片公司因该不会陌生，但由于当时唱片公司发行的决大部分唱片都以Be-Bop风格为主，品种过于单一，Bluenote濒临倒闭，但US3的“Cantaloop”的以单曲形式发行后，它不但创造销售上的奇迹，更是将Bluenote倒闭的边缘拯救了回来。除了这一首歌整张专辑的可听性并不强，但对我来说是对朋友回忆的一个起点，感受一定会不一样，就算是在这次的主题专栏中自私一回！
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FREDDIE HUBBARD,trumpet
GEORGE COLEMAN,tenor sax
HERBIE HANCOCK,piano
RON CARTER,bass
TONY WILLIAMS,drums