Isao Suzuki, Sunao Wada Quartet, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio, George Otsuka Quintet

*2026 stock* A live document from the legendary “5 Days In Jazz” festival in Tokyo in March 1974, and one of the most ambitious multi-band albums in the Three Blind Mice catalogue. The record gathers some of the most important working units of the moment: bassist Isao Suzuki and guitarist Sunao Wada sharing the front of the stage, the Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio holding things together from the rhythm section, and the George Otsuka Quintet stepping in with the alto-led horn front-line that defined the heat of the Tokyo club scene.

The programme moves between hard-bop staples (the title track included), modal vehicles, and a few extended group features that show the players responding to each other in real time. Festival recordings often feel like compromises (too many bands, too little time), but this one captures the scene at its most generous, with a sense of musicians who knew each other's vocabularies inside out. A genuine snapshot of mid-seventies Tokyo jazz at full tilt. Reissued in the Three Blind Mice Supreme Collection 1500.