Scenery

Scenery
Studio album by Ryo Fukui
Publication (s)	1976
admission	7th September 1976
Label (s)	Trio Records
Format (s)	LP, CD
Genre (s)	Modal jazz
Title (number)	6th
running time	41 min 21 s (all versions)
occupation	Ryo Fukui ( piano ) Satoshi Denpo ( double bass ) Yoshinori Fukui ( drums )
production	Ryo Fukui
Location (s)	Yamaha Hall, Sapporo
chronology - Scenery Mellow Dream (1977)

Scenery ( German scenery ) is the first album by the Japanese jazz pianist Ryo Fukui . It was published in 1976 and recorded by Fukui on piano together with Satoshi Denpo as double bass and Yoshinori Fukui as drum accompaniment.

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reception

While the album remained virtually unknown in the US due to the general decline in interest in jazz music in the 1970s, which was also dominated by fusion , it was all the more successful in Japan. The reviews from fans and the trade press there were very positive. In the decades after its release, the album also became internationally known and reached new critics and fans who also rated Fukui's debut work very positively. Fukui was essentially self-taught and took up the classic jazz styles of the 1950s and 1960s ( cool jazz , hardbop , modal jazz ) in his album , in contrast to the dominant jazz trends of the 1970s (rock jazz, fusion, free jazz). This went so far that the Japanese was even compared to jazz greats like McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans .

Until 2011, the original record pressing from 1976 was the only available sound recording of the album. This increased the value significantly. In 2011 the album was re-released on CD in Japan. An independent re-release followed in 2018, also on CD and again as an LP limited to 1,000 copies by the Swiss label We Release Jazz . The original master tapes were used for the re-release and remastered with modern means.

Uploading the album to YouTube played a major role in spreading the album.

Track list

1. It Could Happen to You - 4:16 ( Jimmy Van Heusen , Johnny Burke )
2. I Want To Talk About You - 8:24 ( Billy Eckstine )
3. Early Summer - 11:23 ( Hideo Ichikawa )
4. Willow Weep for Me - 8:55 ( Ann Ronell )
5. Autumn Leaves - 6:02 ( Joseph Kosma , Jacques Prévert )
6. Scenery - 6:29 (Ryo Fukui)

occupation

• Ryo Fukui: piano
• Satoshi Denpo: double bass
• Yoshinori Fukui: drums

production

• Production by Ryo Fukui
• Cover text by Yusuke Ogawa
• Cover design by Takashi Nogiwa
• Photographs by Masataka Ito
• Sound engineering by Kunio Arai

Web links

• Scenery at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://spectrumculture.com/2014/11/03/rediscover-ryo-fukui-scenery/
2. ^ Charlie Wooley, "Scenery": Retrospective of a Jazz Masterpiece , Popgates, archived in Web Archive
3. ↑ https://www.michigandaily.com/section/arts/lost-time-retrospective-ryo-fukui%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98scenery%E2%80%99
4. ↑ http://www.hhv-mag.com/de/new/10053/ryo-fukui-erstmals-auf-vinyl-scenery-und-mellow-dream
5. ↑ https://spectrumculture.com/2014/11/03/rediscover-ryo-fukui-scenery/