Bingo Miki "Back To The Sea"

This album is a monumental work by a rehearsal orchestra organized by Bingo Miki, who won the "Jazz Disc Award of Japan" 1977 with his debut album he composed entitled, "Scandinavian Suite" performed by Tatsuya Takahashi and the Tokyo Union orchestra (TBMXR-1005). Bingo Miki was 32 years old when this recording was made. Because he spent most of his twenties studying music in the USA and Europe, he is in many ways a unique Japanese jazz composer and arranger. He has said, "Good music has no frontiers or racial discrimination, but you must have your own identity card to become a real international artist."

In other words, to be truly "international" is not just a matter of speaking a foreign language fluently, but requires absorbing into your own personality the unique qualities of life in other countries, while observing your surroundings and analyzing your reactions to it all. Bingo Miki's rehearsal orchestra is called "The Inner Galaxy Orchestra" and their work together is based on a unique philosophial concept of Bingo's. He wanted to look within himself and to think about himself in an entirely new way.

The orchestra was organized to enable him to carry out this plan and offer the results to his listeners. The theme of Bingo's first solo album was "The Sea"- the sea as the origin of life on earth and of Bingo himself. Thus, "Back To The Sea" means "back to himself". Originally, this album won the "Jazz Disc Award of Japan" in 1978. If you are fan of Big Jazz Orchestrations then this is the XRCD for you!

Musicians: Bingo Miki and Inner Galaxy Orchestra; Hidehiko Matsumoto, tenor, flute; Kenji Mori, alto sax, tenor sax, clarinet; Masaru Imada, piano; Mari Nakamoto, vocal; Kenji Nakazawa, trumpet; Tetsuya Furutani, percussion.