Bingo Miki & The Inner Galaxy Orchestra

*2026 stock* A double-set capturing Bingo Miki's Inner Galaxy Orchestra in live performance at Montreux, and one of the more ambitious large-ensemble documents in the entire Three Blind Mice catalogue. Miki spent his career writing for big bands at the edge of mainstream Japanese jazz, blending orchestral architecture with modal, spiritual and free-leaning impulses, and the Inner Galaxy Orchestra was his most expansive vehicle. The Montreux performance shows the ensemble at full stretch: long-form arrangements that leave plenty of room for soloists to push the temperature up, percussion-heavy passages, and the kind of multi-section, semi-suite structure Miki specialised in.

The writing knows how to use scale: the orchestra is large, but never crowded, with Miki's pacing letting individual voices come forward and recede across the arc of each piece. A fascinating document of how Japanese players translated the lessons of European and American big-band experimentation into something specifically their own, and one of the records in the Supreme Collection that most clearly justifies the “supreme” billing. Reissued as part of the Three Blind Mice Supreme Collection 1500.