Gary Karr plays Japanese songs. — Tokyo : Firebird, p1995.

Album description

1 audio disc : digital, stereo. ; 12 cm.
Firebird: KICC 161.
Original works and 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 Lilia Music Hall, Kawaguchi, Saitama prefecture, Japan, December 11-12, 1994.
Performed on an Amati double bass made in 1611.
Analog recording.
Program notes in Japanese and English (11 pages), inserted.
Contents: Hana = Bloom (3:27) ; Kojo no tsuki = Moon over the ruined castle (3:52) ; Hakone hachiri = Long and stern mountain (2:59) / Rentaro Taki -- Aoba no fue = A flute of green flute / Torazo Tamura (3:47) -- Oborozukiyo = A night with hazy moon / Teiichi Okano (2:44) -- Jogashima no ame = Raining Joga-shima Island / Tadasi Yanada (3:55) -- Machiboke = Waiting in vain / Kosaku Yamada (1:35) -- Chugoku-chiho no komoriuta = Lullaby of Chugoku region / trad. (3:07) -- Sakura sakura = Cherry blossoms / trad. (2:54) -- Akatombo = A red dragonfly (1:51) ; Sunayama = Dune (3:10) ; Kono michi = The path (2:19) / Kosaku Yamada -- Yoimachigusa = An evening primrose / Tadasuke Ono (3:03) -- Tsuki no sabaku = A dessert under the moon / Suguru Sasaki (4:04) -- Hamabe no uta = Song for strand / Tamezo Narita (3:00) -- Biwako shuko no uta = Sailing through the Biwako Lake / Chiaki Yoshida (3:15) -- Habu no minato = The hourbour of Habu / Shimpei Nakayama (3:13) -- Defune = Sail from a poat / Haseo Sugiyama (2:56) -- Yashi no mi = A coconut / Toraji Onaka (3:23) -- Nara-yama = Nara, the ancient city / Kozaburo Hirai (3:18) -- Yamadera no osho-san = Bonze at a mountain temple / Ryoichi Hattori (2:39) -- Itsuki no komoriuta = Lullaby of Itsuki / trad. (2:23) -- Natsu no omoide = Remembrance of last summer / Yosinao Nakada (3:46).

I. Taki, Rentarō, 1879-1903. Hana; arranged
II. Taki, Rentarō, 1879-1903. Kōjō no tsuki; arranged
III. Taki, Rentarō, 1879-1903. Hakone hachiri; arranged
IV. Tamura, Torazō, 1873-1943. Aoba no fue; arranged
V. Okano, Teiichi, 1878-1941. Oborozukiyo; arranged
VI. Yanada, Tadasi. Jōgashima no ame; arranged
VII. Yamada, Kosaku. Machibōke; arranged
VIII. Chūgoku-chihō no komoriuta; arranged
IX. Sakura sakura; arranged
X. Yamada, Kosaku. Akatombo; arranged
XI. Yamada, Kosaku. Sunayama; arranged
XII. Yamada, Kosaku. Kono michi; arranged
XIII. Ono, Tadasuke. Yoimachigusa; arranged
XIV. Sasaki, Suguru. Tsuki no sabaku; arranged
XV. Narita, Tamezō, 1893-1945. Hamabe no uta; arranged
XVI. Yoshida, Chiaki. Biwako shuko no uta; arranged
XVII. Nakayama, Shimpei. Habu no minato; arranged
XVIII. Sugiyama, Haseo. Defune; arranged
XIX. Onaka, Toraji. Yashi no mi; arranged
XX. Hirai, Kōzaburō, 1910-2002. Nara-yama; arranged
XXI. Hattori, Ryōichi, 1907-1993. Yamadera no osho-san; arranged
XXII. Itsuki no komoriuta = Lullaby of Itsuki; arranged
XXIII. Nakada, Yoshinao, 1923-. Natsu no omoide; arranged