(Jazz) [LP][24/96] Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio: Midnight Sugar - 1974, APE (tracks), lossless

Limited Edition 45-rpm HQ-180g, limited pressing of 1,000 numbered editions (this one is s/n 877). Yamamoto is one of the few Japanese jazz players who has any feel for the medium. If you like bluesy jazz piano with amazingly dynamic sound, you can't go wrong here!
About the Recording
45 RPM Three Blind Mice 2-LP 180 gram pressing set with DEMO DISC SOUND! These were limited to 1000 numbered pressings and they are OFFICIALLY OUT OF PRINT, never to be repressed.
The 33 RPM versions were pretty darn amazing, but these 45s take the sound of this recording to an entirely new level. There are a couple of quite obvious benefits to mastering this music at 45 RPM. One is that Yamamoto tends to use his right hand in a percussive manner, which creates tracking problems on most any set up. At 45 RPM the mastering engineer is able to cut those transients, full of difficult to deal with harmonics, much more cleanly and accurately. The result is a sense of "ease" that you don't hear on the 33.
It's a bit like having a slightly underpowered system which makes loud passages or transients seem to be right at the edge of distortion, and then switching to a more powerful amplifier and hearing those passages reproduced with the relaxed quality that more headroom gives you.
Also the sound opens up quite a bit on these 45s so that more of the room ambience is heard. The Japanese are famous for their close-miking, and sometimes the sense of real musicians in a real space is lacking. Here much of that quality is restored.
Yamamoto is one of the few Japanese jazz players who has any feel for the medium. If you like bluesy jazz piano with amazingly dynamic sound, you can't go wrong here!