Nao Takeuchi

Mototeru Takagi: Live At Little John Yokohama 1999

by John Sharpe
December 25, 2021

Four Japanese improvisers gather for an absorbing summit meeting in the Tokyo port city on Live At Little John Yokohama 1999. Probably the best known of the quartet will be tenor saxophonist Mototeru Takagi, who appeared on drummer Milford Graves' underground classic Meditations Among Us (Kitty, 1977) some 22 years earlier. There is a whiff of that session on this album too, as it also features three horns with percussion; Takagi is joined by reed players Susumu Kongo and Nao ...