Gary Karr plays Japanese songs II. — Tokyo : Firebird, p1999.

Album description

1 audio disc : digital, stereo. ; 12 cm.
Firebird: KICC 285.
Folk songs arranged for double bass and piano or organ.
Arranged by Gary Karr.
Gary Karr, double bass ; Harmon Lewis, piano, organ.
Recorded at the Ark Hall, Muse, Tokorozawa, Japan, December 2-3, 1998.
Performed on a Ham double bass made in 1995.
Program notes in Japanese and English ([10] pages), inserted.
Contents: Soushunfu = Poesy of early spring / Akira Nakada (3:55) -- Awate dokoya = Hasty barber (2:18) ; Karatachi no hana = Flowers of citrus trifoliate (2:40) / Kosaku Yamada -- Chatsumi = Picking tea leaves / anon. (1:57) -- Natsu wa kinu = Summer has come / Sakunosuke Koyama (2:10) -- Azami no uta = Song of thistle (4:27) ; Sakura-gai no uta = A kind of carpenter’s telling shelf (4:53) ; Yama no kemuri = Mountain smoke trails (3:26) / Hideaki Yashima -- Kōjō = An old castle / Jun-ichi Hosokawa (4:12) -- Sato no aki = Autumn in a small village / Minoru Kainuma (3:25) -- Nanatsu no ko = Loving seven year old baby crow / Nagayo Motoori (2:37) -- Shikararete = Having been scolded ( 3:30) ; Hama-chidori = Plover (2:45) / Ryutaro Hirota -- Yuki no furu machi wo = Snowfall on the streets / Yoshinao Nakada (3:29) -- Miagete goran yoru no hoshi wo = Look at the stars above / Taku Izumi (3:40) -- Ue wo muite arukou = Walk with your face up / Hachidai Nakamura (2:21) -- Nangoku Tosa wo atonishite = After having left Tosa, the southern country / Eisaku Takemasa (3:23) -- Koko ni sachi ari = My happiness is here to stay / Saburo Iida (2:28) -- Yoake no uta = Song of dawn / Taku Izumi (2:23) -- Furusato = My dear home village / Teiichi Okano (3:13) -- Gondora no uta = Song of gondola / Shinpei Nakayama (2:50).

I. Nakada, Akira, 1886-1931. Soushunfu; arranged
II. Yamada, Kōsaku. Awate dokoya; arranged
III. Yamada, Kōsaku. Karatachi no hana; arranged
IV. Anon. Chatsumi; arranged
V. Koyama, Sakunosuke. Natsu wa kinu; arranged
VI. Yashima, Hideaki. Azami no uta; arranged
VII. Yashima, Hideaki. Sakura-gai no uta; arranged
VIII. Yashima, Hideaki. Yama no kemuri; arranged
IX. Hosokawa, Jun-ichi, 1913-1991. Kōjō; arranged
X. Kainuma, Minoru, 1909-1971. Sato no aki; arranged
XI. Motoori, Nagayo . Nanatsu no ko; arranged
XII. Hirota, Ryutarō. Shikararete; arranged
XIII. Hirota, Ryutarō. Hama-chidori; arranged
XIV. Nakada, Yoshinao, 1923-. Yuki no furu machi wo; arranged
XV. Izumi, Taku. Miagete goran yoru no hoshi wo; arranged
XVI. Nakamura, Hachidai. Ue wo muite arukou; arranged
XVII. Takemasa, Eisaku, 1907-1982. Nangoku Tosa wo atonishite; arranged
XVIII. Iida, Saburō, 1912-2003. Koko ni sachi ari; arranged
XIX. Izumi, Taku, 1930-1992. Yoake no uta; arranged
XX. Okano, Teiichi, 1878-1941. Furusato; arranged
XXI. Nakayama, Shimpei. Gondora no uta; arranged